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Henry David Thoreau: top 200 quotes
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Life (n.) is rare. We live but a fraction of our lives.
Life (n.) is a counter friction which stops the machine.
Life (n.) is merely existence when it is a life without dreams or aspirations.
Life (n.) is lived by few people. It is only upon death that many people discover that they have never lived.
Life (n.) is about what is inside. What lives within us is vastly more important than what lies behind us and what lies ahead of us.
Success (n.) is a thing the universe will conspire to bring about when a man truly commits
Success (n.) is what usually comes to those who are too busy lo be looking for it.
Success (n.) is achieved by holding a picture of a successful outcome in mind.
Success (n.) is to greet the day and the night with joy, when life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal.
Success (n.) comes, unexpected in common hours, to one who advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined.
Success (n.) is, for every man, in proportion to his average ability.
Politics (n.) is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
Politics (n.) is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its two opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals, but states, have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.
Language (n.) is a symptom of our brokenness. In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
Fear (n.) is not to be feared — Nothing is so much to be feared as Fear
October (n.) is the year's sunset sky while November is the later twilight.
Mythology (n.) is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
Empiricism (n.) is not always the wise approach — it is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.