Henry David Thoreau on brook
“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau
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It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
George EliotGeorge Eliot I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
Irvin D. YalomIrvin D. Yalom The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks There’s an army story in me, and I think there’s a WWII Brooks film somewhere.
Mel BrooksMel Brooks I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.
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