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The heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
Heart
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
Beauty
Perception
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau
Excitement
Language
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Desperation
Quiet
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Henry David Thoreau
Man
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
Man
Today
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau
Darkness
Dawn
Day
Eyes
Light
Sun
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
Henry David Thoreau
Truth
Consistency
Expediency
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Law
Man
Will
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Detail
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Work
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Positive
Mankind
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Desperation
Grave
Quiet
Song
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
Money
Soul
Necessity