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| The language of friendship is not words but meanings. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Men have become the tools of their tools. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| My friend is one... who take me for what I am. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| No one is so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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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. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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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 |
Henry David Thoreau |
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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. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of the way. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| In wildness is the preservation of the world. - from Walking |
Henry David Thoreau |
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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. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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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. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| There is no remedy for love but to love more. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought , and attended to my answer. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I stand in awe of my body. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Go confidently in the direction of your dreams Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions know that you are alone in the world. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Water is the only drink for a wise man. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Man is the artificer of his own happiness. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Things do not change we change. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Every man is the builder of a temple called his body. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. |
Henry David Thoreau |
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| Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. |
Marshall McLuhan |
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| There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. |
Marshall McLuhan |
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| The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. |
Marshall McLuhan |
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| I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. |
Marshall McLuhan |
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| The medium is the message. |
Marshall McLuhan |
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| There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening. |
Marshall McLuhan |
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| The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. |
Madame de Maintenon |
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| He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain. |
John Moore |
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| No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. |
Harold MacMillan |
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| I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. |
Harold MacMillan |
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| I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. |
Gale Sayers |
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| 'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. |
Walter Dwight |
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| It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees |
Emiliano Zapata |
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| What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble |
Benjamin Spock |
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| A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever. |
Henry Waldorf Francis |
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| Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good. |
Baltasar Gracian |
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| I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep. |
Big Daddy Lipscomb |
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| Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. |
Pablo Casals |
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| The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance. |
Pablo Casals |
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| You must work--- we must all work To make the world worthy of its children. |
Pablo Casals |
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| I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad.N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end. |
Psalms 11996 |
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