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title: "2 Receives Ready Quotes by 1 author"
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> [A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-man-receives-only-what-he-is-ready-to-receive-the-phenomenon-or/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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> [A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-david-thoreau/a-man-receives-only-what-he-is-ready-to-receive-whether-physically-or/)

[Henry David Thoreau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau/)

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