More from Henry David Thoreau

  1. Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to d…
  2. Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
  3. It takes two to speak the truth, - one to speak, and another to hear.
  4. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.
  5. It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yel…
  6. The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be his neighbor, there is an unsettl…
  7. My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
  8. A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

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