Time is but the stream I go afishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
I know myself as a human entity the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.Henry David Thoreau
The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
Henry David Thoreau
How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden all world-ridden.
Henry David Thoreau
Poverty it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
Henry David Thoreau
We hate the kindness which we understand.
Henry David Thoreau
That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
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