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Henry David Thoreau: The pleasure we...

Henry David Thoreau: The pleasure we...

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

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Henry David Thoreau: My facts shall...

Henry David Thoreau: My facts shall...

My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be...

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Henry David Thoreau: It is not...

Henry David Thoreau: It is not...

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

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Henry David Thoreau: I have a...

Henry David Thoreau: I have a...

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

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Henry David Thoreau: A lake is...

Henry David Thoreau: A lake is...

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder...

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Henry David Thoreau: If we knew...

Henry David Thoreau: If we knew...

If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer...

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Henry David Thoreau: Men are probably...

Henry David Thoreau: Men are probably...

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

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Henry David Thoreau: Money is not...

Henry David Thoreau: Money is not...

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

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Henry David Thoreau: It is a...

Henry David Thoreau: It is a...

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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Henry David Thoreau: In the long...

Henry David Thoreau: In the long...

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at...

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Henry David Thoreau: Enemies publish themselves....

Henry David Thoreau: Enemies publish themselves....

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

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Henry David Thoreau: How often we...

Henry David Thoreau: How often we...

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal...

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Henry David Thoreau: The eye may...

Henry David Thoreau: The eye may...

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

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Henry David Thoreau: The smallest seed...

Henry David Thoreau: The smallest seed...

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

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Henry David Thoreau: We perceive and...

Henry David Thoreau: We perceive and...

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

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Thomas Carlyle: If Jesus Christ...

Thomas Carlyle: If Jesus Christ...

If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people wouldn't even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he...

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Thomas Carlyle: Music is well...

Thomas Carlyle: Music is well...

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so...

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Thomas Carlyle: No man who...

Thomas Carlyle: No man who...

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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Thomas Carlyle: Speech is human,...

Thomas Carlyle: Speech is human,...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both...

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Thomas Carlyle: Secrecy is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Secrecy is the...

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

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