It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
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More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
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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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I love to be alone.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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