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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Category: Adversity Author: Henry David Thoreau
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Category: Age Author: Henry David Thoreau
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It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
Category: Animals and Pets Author: Henry David Thoreau
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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Category: Animal Rights Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads.
Category: Attitude Author: Henry David Thoreau
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So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
Category: Attitude Author: Henry David Thoreau
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Category: Birds Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead.
Category: Body Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
Category: Body Author: Henry David Thoreau
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry David Thoreau
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint.... What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
Category: Books and Reading Author: Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Category: Business Author: Henry David Thoreau
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Henry David Thoreau Source: Economy
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Henry David Thoreau
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A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
Category: Cats Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Things do not change; we change.
Category: Change Author: Henry David Thoreau
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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.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Henry David Thoreau
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I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Henry David Thoreau
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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.
Category: Civil Disobedience Author: Henry David Thoreau
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