Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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Being is the great explainer.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
Henry David Thoreau
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
Henry David Thoreau
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Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David Thoreau
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Henry David Thoreau
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau