Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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What is once well done is done forever.
Henry David Thoreau
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Henry David Thoreau
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I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
Henry David Thoreau
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If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
Henry David Thoreau
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau
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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau