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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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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Subject:
Wisdom
Life
Time
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Subject:
Mind
Thinking
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Subject:
Patriotism
Justice
Laws
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Subject:
Good
Morality
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Subject:
War
God
Laws
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Subject:
Ability
Source:
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Subject:
Life
Morality
Philosophical
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Subject:
Nature
Hypocrisy
Human Nature
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Subject:
Wisdom
Thinking
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour.
Subject:
Ability
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