Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David ThoreauTags: liberty freedom protest slave slavery slaves obedience disobedience
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David ThoreauTags: relate
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauTags: nature heaven earth heavenly
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms, and did my duty faithfully; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across-lot routes, keeping them open, and ravines bridged and passable at all seasons, where the public heel had testified to their utility.
Henry David ThoreauTags: journals
I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.
Henry David ThoreauTags: government civil-disobedience
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David ThoreauTags: inspirational
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David ThoreauWhen we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Henry David ThoreauThings do not change; we change.
Henry David ThoreauTags: inspirational philosophy common-sense
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David ThoreauTags: conformity fashion generation
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