No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines his fate. It is important what one thinks of themselves, much more important than what others think.Henry David Thoreau
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
Henry David Thoreau
How full of the creative genius is the air in which these (snowflakes) are generated. I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat.
Henry David Thoreau
Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David Thoreau
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance
Henry David Thoreau
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.
Henry David Thoreau
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