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Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
- Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
- What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
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