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Back Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.
- As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.
- Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must…
- Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely…
- Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came…
- We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only…
- What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies…
- I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to…
- Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
- In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form with the shovel and scraper,…
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