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3 Henry David Thoreau Quotes on Action

Henry David Thoreau quotes on action

  1. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

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  2. I speak for the slave when I say that I prefer the philanthropy of Captain Brown to that philanthropy which neither shoots me nor liberates me.

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  3. In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

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