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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 man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Achievement
Henry David Thoreau

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Desperation
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 only wealth is life.
Money
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 savage in man is never quite eradicated.
War
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 stars are the apexes of what triangles!
Stardom
Henry David Thoreau

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

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The universe is wider than our views of it.
Universe
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 nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
Virtue
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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There is no remedy for love than to love more.
Love
Henry David Thoreau

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Things do not change, we do.
Change
Henry David Thoreau

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Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau

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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Idleness
Henry David Thoreau

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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
Thoughts and Thinking
Henry David Thoreau

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To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.
Inheritance
Henry David Thoreau

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To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Regret
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