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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident - It is as common as life.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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