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Taking Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part…
- 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…
- Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.
- We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of…
- One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five…
- So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say;…
- All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
- It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
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