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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

«You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.»
«So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.»
«If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.Walden»
«Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.»
«The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.»
«The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.»
«Man is the artificer of his own happiness.»
«Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction,- a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse»
«The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man confronts a fact»
«The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it»