Henry David Thoreau Quotes on Virtue
Henry David Thoreau was a 19th-century American philosopher, essayist, and naturalist, the second major figure of the Transcendentalist movement after Ralph Waldo Emerson, his mentor and friend. This page collects quotes attributed to Henry David Thoreau on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Henry David Thoreau:
“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.”
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Attributed to Henry David Thoreau:
“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
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Attributed to Henry David Thoreau:
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
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Attributed to Henry David Thoreau:
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
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Attributed to Henry David Thoreau:
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”