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Charles Dickens: There's a young...

Charles Dickens: There's a young...

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I...

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P G Wodehouse: Chumps always make...

P G Wodehouse: Chumps always make...

Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his forehead first, and if it rings...

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Mark Twain: Grief can take...

Mark Twain: Grief can take...

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it...

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Thomas Carlyle: The king is...

Thomas Carlyle: The king is...

The king is the man who can.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Thomas Carlyle: This Mirabeau's work,...

Thomas Carlyle: This Mirabeau's work,...

This Mirabeau's work, then, is done. He sleeps with the primeval giants. He has gone over to the majority: Abiit ad...

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Thomas Carlyle: The purpose of...

Thomas Carlyle: The purpose of...

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Thomas Carlyle: We were wise...

Thomas Carlyle: We were wise...

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages,...

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Thomas Carlyle: Work is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Work is the...

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

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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: I do not...

Henry David Thoreau: I do not...

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage...

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Henry David Thoreau: Under a government...

Henry David Thoreau: Under a government...

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a...

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Henry David Thoreau: There are now-a-days...

Henry David Thoreau: There are now-a-days...

There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.

Source: Walden,...

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Henry David Thoreau: To be a...

Henry David Thoreau: To be a...

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to...

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Henry David Thoreau: Our inventions are...

Henry David Thoreau: Our inventions are...

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved...

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Henry David Thoreau: Give me the...

Henry David Thoreau: Give me the...

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Source: Walden, The Ponds, 1854.
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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: Explore thyself. Herein...

Henry David Thoreau: Explore thyself. Herein...

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

Source: Walden,...

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Henry David Thoreau: Only the defeated...

Henry David Thoreau: Only the defeated...

Only the defeated and deserters go to war.

Source: Walden, 1854.
-- Henry David...

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Henry David Thoreau: Tis healthy to...

Henry David Thoreau: Tis healthy to...

Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Source: In Macmillan Dictionary of Quotations, by...

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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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