Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear as plainly in theinfringement as in the observance, and our lives are sustained by a nearly equal expense of virtue of some kind. The decaying tree, while yet it lives, demands sun, wind, and rain no less than the green one. It secretes sap and performs the functions of health. If we choose, we may study the alburnum only. The gnarled stump has as tender a bud as the sapling.

Henry David Thoreau's Popular Quotes

What is religion? That which is never spoken.

- Henry David Thoreau

For things to change, we must change.

- Henry David Thoreau

There is no beginning too small.

- Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.

- Henry David Thoreau

We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally ser…

- Henry David Thoreau

Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the small…

- Henry David Thoreau

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

- Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

- Henry David Thoreau

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

- Henry David Thoreau