Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to...

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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a...

#Henry David Thoreau

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes...

#Henry David Thoreau

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this...

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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by...

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Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.

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Being is the great explainer.

#Henry David Thoreau

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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Be not simply good - be good for something.

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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past...

#Henry David Thoreau