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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Henry David Thoreau |
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Quotes By author - Starting with H - Henry David Thoreau
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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How earthy old people become - moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Quotations 161 to
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