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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

«What is once well done is done forever.»
«All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.»
«It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.»
«Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.»
«I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate»
«Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights»
«A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance»
«My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.»
«There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.»
«The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.»