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| We hate the kindness which we understand. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| There is no remedy for love but to love more. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| Time is but the stream I go a fishing in. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. |
| by Henry David Thoreau |
| Fear is the mother of foresight. |
| by Henry Taylor |
| No day in which you learn something is a complete loss. |
| by David Eddings |
| No day in which you learn something is a complete loss. |
| by David Eddings |
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