Quotes for English Learners
Quotes by
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau :
Before you can utter oracles The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau |
language
Dreams and success If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau |
dreams
Every creature Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau |
life
Ferocious It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David Thoreau |
culture
For love Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau |
work
Foundations If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau |
goals
Go confidently Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau |
inspirational
Heaven Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau |
religion
Incessant business I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau |
money
It is healthy 'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Henry David Thoreau |
health
Old fashions Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau |
fashion
Perception of beauty The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau |
beauty
Simplify your life As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau |
weakness
The language of friendship The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau |
friendship
The price of anything The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau |
life
The quality of life To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau |
life
They don't know Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau |
sport
Tools Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau |
technology
We are all of one family All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
Henry David Thoreau |
family
We change Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau |
change
What I can do for my friend The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau |
friendship
You can What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
Henry David Thoreau |
motivational
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