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Walden & Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
“Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
“Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.”
“I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.”
“I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.”
“We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.”
“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.”
“But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.”
“Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.”
“I love a broad margin to my life.”
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