Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Bravery

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Bravery, Brave Man

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

Henry David Thoreau

Father, Men, Bravery

Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.255

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Bravery, Shock

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.121, Penguin

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?

Henry David Thoreau

Integrity, Bravery, What If

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.85, Xist Publishing

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

Henry David Thoreau

Hands, Bravery, Jupiter

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.77, Graphic Arts Books

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Bravery, Waiting

"A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859)

The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

Henry David Thoreau

Sympathy, Grief, Bravery

Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.122

Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Bravery

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