Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Henry David Thoreau
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.
Henry David Thoreau
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David Thoreau
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Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau
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Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David Thoreau