Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau: It takes two...

Henry David Thoreau: It takes two...

It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.

Source: A Week on...

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Henry David Thoreau: I never found...

Henry David Thoreau: I never found...

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Source: Walden,...

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Henry David Thoreau: We must walk...

Henry David Thoreau: We must walk...

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our...

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Henry David Thoreau: Not that the...

Henry David Thoreau: Not that the...

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

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Henry David Thoreau: If a man...

Henry David Thoreau: If a man...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to...

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Henry David Thoreau: The poet is...

Henry David Thoreau: The poet is...

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as...

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Henry David Thoreau: A broad margin...

Henry David Thoreau: A broad margin...

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

Source:...

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Henry David Thoreau: We seem but...

Henry David Thoreau: We seem but...

We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the...

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Henry David Thoreau: The man who...

Henry David Thoreau: The man who...

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at...

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Henry David Thoreau: What men call...

Henry David Thoreau: What men call...

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close...

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Henry David Thoreau: He who is...

Henry David Thoreau: He who is...

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most...

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Henry David Thoreau: As if you...

Henry David Thoreau: As if you...

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Source: Walden, Economy,...

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Henry David Thoreau: The volatile truth...

Henry David Thoreau: The volatile truth...

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual...

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Henry David Thoreau: But lo! men...

Henry David Thoreau: But lo! men...

But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.

Source: Walden, Economy,...

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Henry David Thoreau: Absolutely speaking, Do...

Henry David Thoreau: Absolutely speaking, Do...

Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the...

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Henry David Thoreau: Read the best...

Henry David Thoreau: Read the best...

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.

Source: A...

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Henry David Thoreau: What lies behind...

Henry David Thoreau: What lies behind...

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within...

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Henry David Thoreau: The highest law...

Henry David Thoreau: The highest law...

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

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-- Henry David...

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Henry David Thoreau: That man is...

Henry David Thoreau: That man is...

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

Source:
-- Henry David...

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Henry David Thoreau: A name pronounced...

Henry David Thoreau: A name pronounced...

A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can...

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