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Persons Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
- The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the…
- You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else…
- It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.
- In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
- We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
- To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
- 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…
- I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out…
- I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know…
- An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
- Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.
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