Tag: Henry David Thoreau

Water is the only drink for a wise man.

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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

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We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends’ thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. — from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

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We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.

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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

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What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.

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What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.

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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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