Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Henry David Thoreau
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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Henry David Thoreau
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau