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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
By Henry David Thoreau
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
By Henry David Thoreau
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
By Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
By Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
By Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
By Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
By Henry David Thoreau
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
By Henry David Thoreau
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
By Henry David Thoreau
Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
By Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
By Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
By Henry David Thoreau
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
By Henry David Thoreau
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
By Henry David Thoreau
This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
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They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
By Henry David Thoreau