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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.»
«He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
mortals, passing, remembering
«It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
beaten, fall into, insensibly, remarkable, route, routes, track
«Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone... I never yet met with, or heard of, a judge who was not a slave of this kind, and so the finest and most unfailing weapon of injustice. He fetches a slightly higher price than the black men only because he is a more valuable slave.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
egg, laid, nest egg, recorded, welcomed
«As if there were safety in stupidity alone»
«What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have, - leisure and a quiet mind»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
banker, clown, leisure, meanest, sighs
«Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Children,
Experience,
Failure,
Life,
Men,
Relationships,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
discern, worthily
«How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
at present, dated, era, New Era, perchance, unutterable, uttered
«Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
lay, sky, thank, the Earth, waste
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