Quotes Flashcards
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Emerson
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.
Thoreau
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Emerson
We do not ride upon the railroad; it rides upon us.
Thoreau
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Emerson
I went to the woods because I wished to live Deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Thoreau
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Emerson
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Emerson
Trust Thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
Emerson
What should we think of the shepherd’s life if his flocks always wander to higher pastures than his thoughts.
Thoreau
O Captain my Captain
Walt Whitman
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Emerson
Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity… Simplify simplify.
Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation, frittered away by detail.
Thoreau
Olympus is but the outside of Earth Everywhere….
Thoreau
