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Tag Archives: Henry David Thoreau
Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau: write
How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live.
Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau: attention
The greatest compliment that was ever paid to me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer.
Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau: price
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau: worlds within you
Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau: nature
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain.
Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.