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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them»
«We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, - prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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«Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.»
«Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.»
«We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.»
«We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful. For a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and»
«The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.»
«What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.»
«A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.»
«If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.»