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Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
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Minorities quotesA minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
Prison quotesUnder a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Poetry quotesPoetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Critics quotesI am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Writers quotesHow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Eyes quotesThe eye is the jewel of the body.
Failure quotesMen are born to succeed, not to fail.
Media quotesWe are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
Cost quotesThe 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.
Instinct quotesWhat is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
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