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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails. -
951Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. Henry David Thoreau
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. -
975If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. -
978The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. Henry David Thoreau
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. -
726It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. Henry David Thoreau
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. -
733I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. Henry David Thoreau
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Things do not change; we change. -
793When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. Henry David Thoreau
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow... -
772Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. Henry David Thoreau
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness. -
702Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. Henry David Thoreau
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. -
734But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Henry David Thoreau
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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- 11 years ago.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. -
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- Quote created by Karuna Sapra
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.