If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We...

I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We...

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with...

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with...

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for...

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for...

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with,...

I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with,...

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay...

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to...

If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to...

Fire is the most tolerable third party

Fire is the most tolerable third party

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded...

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded...

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude

The universe is wider than our views of it.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

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

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

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...