Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David Thoreau
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau
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I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
Henry David Thoreau
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau