There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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