Deductions Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.”

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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that…

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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

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“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and…

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“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of…

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As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may…

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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.

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In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the…

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.

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Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

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Induction for deduction, with a view to construction.

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There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing as exciting…

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I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train…

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All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence…

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when you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except…

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For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise…

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No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience.

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These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had…

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If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and…

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