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Henry David Thoreau


American
July 12, 1817
Author
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Faith never makes a confession.


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Tags: Faith Never Makes
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.


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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.


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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.


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What is once well done is done forever.


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Tags: Well Done Once
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.


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Tags: Man Rich Whose
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.


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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.


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Tags: Work Life Your
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.


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Tags: You Your World
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.


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Tags: Day Quality Arts
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.


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Tags: Will Make Any
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.


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Tags: Than Love Better
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.


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Tags: You Life Anything
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.


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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!


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Tags: Our Love Never
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.


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Tags: More Than Man
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.


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Tags: Will Every Find
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?


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Tags: You Got Put
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?


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Tags: Than How Could
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.


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Tags: Us Lives Within
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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.


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Tags: Men Who Will
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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.


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Tags: Will Any Where
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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.


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Tags: Know Had Them
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.


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Tags: Men You Would
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.


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Tags: Them Only Us
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
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Tags: Being Other Each
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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Tags: Alone Our Us
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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Tags: More Life Know
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
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Tags: Truth Always May
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
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Tags: Out Life Live
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
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Tags: Nature Our Will
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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Tags: Men Who Life
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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Tags: You Think Know
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
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Tags: Our Them Any
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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Tags: Good Which Am