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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.


Henry David Thoreau

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you give money, spend yourself with it.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds amo...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fool...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate pov...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any preceden...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the t...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Life in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Of what significance are the things you can forget.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women ov...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but ...
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