Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Time
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
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Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.
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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
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Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.
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The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
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As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
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There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
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Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.
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We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.
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The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
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What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
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As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
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All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.
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