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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Henry David Thoreau

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

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Truths and roses have thorns about them.

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I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

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Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

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To be awake is to be alive.

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I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

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What is once well done is done forever.

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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

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Being is the great explainer.

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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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