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148 quotes (Page 6 of 6 pages)True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Friends and Friendship
Henry David Thoreau
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Prison
Henry David Thoreau
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Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Henry David Thoreau
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We are constantly invited to be who we are.
Self-appraisal
Henry David Thoreau
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We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
Suspicion
Henry David Thoreau
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
Sin
Henry David Thoreau
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We hate the kindness which we understand.
Kindness
Henry David Thoreau
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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
Friends and Friendship
Henry David Thoreau
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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
Character
Henry David Thoreau
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
Success
Henry David Thoreau
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Henry David Thoreau
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We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
Influence
Henry David Thoreau
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We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Success
Henry David Thoreau
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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Wealth
Henry David Thoreau
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Education
Henry David Thoreau
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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Resignation
Henry David Thoreau
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
Grief
Henry David Thoreau
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Philosophers and Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau
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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
Progress
Henry David Thoreau
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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
Time and Time Management
Henry David Thoreau
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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
Success
Henry David Thoreau
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Present
Henry David Thoreau
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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
Eccentricity
Henry David Thoreau
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun