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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.»
«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.»
«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»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cloths, commonly, estimation, estimations, fashionable, lower, patch, patched
«The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
day by day, laboring, Labor Day, leisure
«Associate reverently, and as much as one can with our loftiest thoughts»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
associate, loftiest, reverently
«Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
superstitions, The central