Tag: Henry David Thoreau

No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

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Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

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

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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

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

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

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That government is best which governs least. – from Civil Disobedience

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