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148 quotes (Page 2 of 6 pages)Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Fame
Henry David Thoreau
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Conventionality
Henry David Thoreau
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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
Experience
Henry David Thoreau
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
Self-knowledge
Henry David Thoreau
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Doubt
Henry David Thoreau
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Farming and Farmers
Henry David Thoreau
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Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
Poverty and The Poor
Henry David Thoreau
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Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
Tenderness
Henry David Thoreau
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Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
Goodness
Henry David Thoreau
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Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Leisure
Henry David Thoreau
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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Education
Henry David Thoreau
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Writers and Writing
Henry David Thoreau
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Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
Humility
Henry David Thoreau
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Home
Henry David Thoreau
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I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.
War
Henry David Thoreau
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I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
Company
Henry David Thoreau
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
Silence
Henry David Thoreau
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I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
Solitude
Henry David Thoreau
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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Letters
Henry David Thoreau
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Determination
Henry David Thoreau
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I say, break the law.
Law and Lawyers
Henry David Thoreau
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Egotism
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