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13535 quotesI 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 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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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Vision
Henry David Thoreau
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I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Pride
Henry David Thoreau
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Solitude
Henry David Thoreau
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Wilderness
Henry David Thoreau
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Busyness
Henry David Thoreau
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It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
Truth
Henry David Thoreau
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Let nothing come between you and the light.
Control
Henry David Thoreau
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Death and Dying
Henry David Thoreau
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Happiness
Henry David Thoreau
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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Purpose
Henry David Thoreau
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Men have become the tools of their trade.
Work
Henry David Thoreau
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Money
Henry David Thoreau
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Life and Living
Henry David Thoreau
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Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Memory
Henry David Thoreau
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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
Flowers
Henry David Thoreau
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Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Travel and Tourism
Henry David Thoreau
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Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
Saints
Henry David Thoreau
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
Morality
Henry David Thoreau
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Poetry and Poets
Henry David Thoreau
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
Politicians and Politics
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