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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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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Subject:
Wisdom
Business
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
Subject:
Americans
Source:
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
Subject:
Justice
Government
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Subject:
Ambition
Life
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Subject:
Love & Romance
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My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Subject:
Friendship
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
Subject:
Reading
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Subject:
Listening
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Subject:
Happiness
Source: Journal, January 21, 1838
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Subject:
Fool
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