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A man is proportioned directly from the rich foods he lets alone


Henry David Prudhomme

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HENRY DAVID THOREAU How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, p...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must lay it down and commence living on its h...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The only wealth is life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowled...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valu...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been rid...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor i...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We falsely attribute to men a determined character -- putting together all their yesterdays -- and a...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it pea...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Seve...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we h...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?
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