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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.»
«How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.»
«One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then»
«I hear many condemn these men [Founding Fathers] because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?»
«[And when in 1850 the federal government passed a strengthened Fugitive Slave Act, permitting federal law officials to come to free states to arrest runaway slaves, thus putting the government on the side of the slave owners, the die was cast. Brown had had enough, as had others.] I did not know at first what ailed me, ... At last it occurred to me that what I had lost was a country.»
«How about 'Walden'?»
«Music is perpetual; only hearing is intermittent.»
«We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and averaging them -- we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is the silent poor indeed.»
«That government is best which governs least.»
«The eye is the jewel of the body.»
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