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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
consistency, consistent, expediency, lawyer
«Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Inventions
| Keywords:
distract, distracting, distracts, improved, inventions, toys, unimproved, wont, wont to
«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
double, double play, equivalent, flexible, forepart, hind, hinds, plays, tail, tread, tread on
«It is never too late to give up your prejudices»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Prejudice,
Safety
| Keywords:
prejudices
«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»
«Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.»
«If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
companions, drummer, hears, hears a different drummer, pace
«As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
ambitious, boobies, booby, constructing, degraded, drowned, For some, manlier, Nile, pyramid, Pyramids, The Pyramids, wiser
«She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
at present, composedly, entries, entry, good part, hole, mouse, paw, pawing, paws, ridiculous, sentinel, sentinels, sits, tuck, tucked
«What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
confirmed, desperation, resignation
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