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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

«It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.»
«No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself»
«The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode»
«That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.»
«Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?»
«We are constantly invited to be who we are.»
«Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.»
«Nothing is so much to be feared as fear»
«The sun is but a morning star.»
«What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?»