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HENRY DAVID THOREAUThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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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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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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