Tag: Henry David Thoreau

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on

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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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What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.

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Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly…I think– Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.

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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

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Why should we be in such desperate hast 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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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Henry David Thoreau