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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Money
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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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Books - Reading
Henry David Thoreau

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Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
Society
Henry David Thoreau

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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Mediocrity
Henry David Thoreau

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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
Mistakes
Henry David Thoreau

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The eye is the jewel of the body.
Eyes
Henry David Thoreau

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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Conflict
Henry David Thoreau

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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
Animals
Henry David Thoreau

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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Integrity
Henry David Thoreau

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Friends and Friendship
Henry David Thoreau

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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Law and Lawyers
Henry David Thoreau

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
Friends and Friendship
Henry David Thoreau

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
Music
Henry David Thoreau

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The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.
Purity
Henry David Thoreau

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Faith
Henry David Thoreau

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The sun is but a morning star.
Sun
Henry David Thoreau

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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
Character
Henry David Thoreau

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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Words
Henry David Thoreau

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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
Money
Henry David Thoreau

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There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Problems
Henry David Thoreau

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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
Corruption
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