Henry David Thoreau on foundation
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
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Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau All good things are wild and free.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Things do not change; we change.
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Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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