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Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Memory
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 truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Dreams
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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People die of fright and live of confidence.
Fear
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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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
Politicians and Politics
Henry David Thoreau

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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Truth
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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That government is best which governs least.
Government
Henry David Thoreau

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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Riches
Henry David Thoreau

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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.
Virtue
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 heart is forever inexperienced.
Emotions
Henry David Thoreau

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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Property
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 law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
Freedom
Henry David Thoreau

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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