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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
By Henry David Thoreau
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
By Henry David Thoreau
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
By Henry David Thoreau
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
By Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
By Henry David Thoreau
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
By Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
By Henry David Thoreau
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
By Henry David Thoreau
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
By Henry David Thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
By Henry David Thoreau
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
By Henry David Thoreau
I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
By Henry David Thoreau
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
By Henry David Thoreau