Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau
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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau
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A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
Henry David Thoreau
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.
Henry David Thoreau
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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau
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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Henry David Thoreau
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I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David Thoreau