Henry David Thoreau
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“If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?” -Henry David Thoreau
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“To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.” -Henry David Thoreau
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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.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Men have become the tools of their tools.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Make the most of your regrets never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!” -Henry David Thoreau
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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“That government is best which governs least.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Faith never makes a confession.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Things do not change we change.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!” -Henry David Thoreau
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“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.” -Henry David Thoreau
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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. – Henry David Thoreau
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. – Henry David Thoreau
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