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"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Category:
Ability
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
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Ability
"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Category:
Action
"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm"
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Category:
Age and Aging
"We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not."
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Category:
Bereavement
"Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books."
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Category:
Books and Reading
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Category:
Books and Reading
"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
Category:
Caution
"Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed."
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Henry David Thoreau
Category:
Character
"The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument."
Author:
Henry David Thoreau
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Conflict
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