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Quotations by author » Henry David Thoreau
American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862
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Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith.
Friendship
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw
Civilization
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
PovertyWealth
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
Beauty
Glorify God and enjoy him forever
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Glorify God and enjoy him forever.
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
CommitmentDreamsGoalsGraduationLife
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
Work
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
MankindPoetrySpeech
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Goodness
Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way
Government
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
Past
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Heaven
How about 'Walden'?
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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
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