Tag: Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David Thoreau
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
Henry David Thoreau
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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Henry David Thoreau
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I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
Henry David Thoreau
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Henry David Thoreau
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau