Elevation Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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“What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!”

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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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We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality. On the…

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Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

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I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

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I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession…

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“Everyone cannot elevate or even revelate at the same time and/or season; an appointment to elevation can result from being specially chosen...like fruit that…

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The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations…

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The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was,…

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“I like anything that is thought provoking and elevates one's consciousness to the highest and out of it's safety net, making one breathe aspiration.”

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