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My Life Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
- I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from…
- I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking…
- When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my…
- If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run…
- There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I…
- The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.
- I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
- Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
- I love the broad margin to my life.
- My life is like a stroll upon the beach.
- In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would…
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