| 177 Famous Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
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“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
Government Quotes |
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“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”
Government Quotes |
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“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Graduation Quotes |
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
Heaven Quotes |
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“This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.”
Imagination Quotes |
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“It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.”
Imagination Quotes |
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“To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
Knowledge Quotes |
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“The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.”
Law and lawyers Quotes |
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“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind”
Luxury Quotes |
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“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?”
Miracles Quotes |
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“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Motivation Quotes |
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“I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief”
Pets Quotes |
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.”
Purpose Quotes |
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“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.”
Quality Quotes |
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“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
Remedies Quotes |
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“Life's a game, all you have to do, is know how to play it.”
Rules Quotes |
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“This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction”
Satisfaction Quotes |
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“Simplicity is the nature of great souls.”
Simplicity Quotes |
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“It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.”
Speech Quotes |
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“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.”
The present Quotes |
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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”
Time Quotes |
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“Water is the only drink for a wise man.”
Water Quotes |
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Wealth Quotes |
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“All good things are wild, and free.”
Wilderness Quotes |
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“You were once wild here”
Wilderness Quotes |
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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