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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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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
Knowledge
Henry David Thoreau

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Let nothing come between you and the light.
Control
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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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Failure
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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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
Uncategorised
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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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 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 lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Law and Lawyers
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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Things do not change, we do.
Change
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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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Friends and Friendship
Henry David Thoreau

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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
Sin
Henry David Thoreau

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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
Friends and Friendship
Henry David Thoreau

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We were born to succeed, not to fail.
Success
Henry David Thoreau

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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
Grief
Henry David Thoreau

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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
Philosophers and Philosophy
Henry David Thoreau

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You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
Time and Time Management
Henry David Thoreau

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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
Eccentricity
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