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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

«Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.»
«It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.»
«Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.»
«We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.»
«That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.»
«Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.»
«It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.»
«Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.»
«There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.»
«We were born to succeed, not to fail.»