Inspirational Quotes » Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”

Quote #14346

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:14:19 +0000

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Quote #11815

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:51 +0000

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Quote #11622

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:49 +0000

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.

Quote #9837

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:29 +0000

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

Quote #8823

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:13:17 +0000

Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.

Quote #1083

admin — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 07:11:51 +0000

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.