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Wise Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
- Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and…
- A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
- A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There…
- The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere…
- Count your age with friends but not with years.
- 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…
- A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I…
- All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty…
- I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise…
- None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
- A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
- A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There…
- All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man.
- Water is the only drink for a wise man.
- Who does not see that heresies have some time prevailed, that reforms have already taken place? All this worldly wisdom might be regarded as the…
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