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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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~ Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature – daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it – rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks. The solid earth! ~
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~ One farmer says to me, You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with; and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle ~
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~ The question is not what you look at, but what you see ~
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~ Water is the only drink for a wise man. ~
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~ I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man. ~
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~ I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. ~
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~ Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ~
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~ Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties ~
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~ Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~
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~ Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~
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~ In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains. ~
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~ Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~
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~ As if there were safety in stupidity alone ~
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~ Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. ~
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~ Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert. ~
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