Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
Henry David Thoreau
Great Quotes
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Life Quotes
We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
Henry David Thoreau
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
Henry David Thoreau
We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David Thoreau
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David Thoreau
Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Henry David Thoreau
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship Quotes
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.