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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

«The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.»
«All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.»
«If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.»
«All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.»
«Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.»
«No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience»
«It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar»
«The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.»
«Associate reverently, and as much as one can with our loftiest thoughts»
«Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science»