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Quotations by author » Henry David Thoreau
American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame
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Even trees do not die without a groan
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Fashion
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour
Life
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
Experience
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Fame
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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Fire is the most tolerable third party
Fire
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself
Strength
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever...
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For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever...
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For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody
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Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
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Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
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