Tag: Henry David Thoreau

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. – from Live Without Principle

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There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

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Things do not change we change.

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

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To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.

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To reget deeply is to live afresh.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.

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