Tag: 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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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
Henry David Thoreau
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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David Thoreau
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau
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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
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Faith never makes a confession.
Henry David Thoreau