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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
Cities and City Life
Henry David Thoreau

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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Passion
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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Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
Thoughts and Thinking
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 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 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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If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
Behavior
Henry David Thoreau

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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
Charity
Henry David Thoreau

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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Wisdom
Henry David Thoreau

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
Law and Lawyers
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 requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
Women
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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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
Love
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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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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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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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Poetry and Poets
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