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Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Tools
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Learning
Respect
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Succeed
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
Henry David Thoreau
Love
May
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
Dreams
Life
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
Interest
Regret
Sorrow
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature
Answers
Question
Resolution
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Henry David Thoreau
Beliefs
World
Live the life you've dreamed.
Henry David Thoreau
Life
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
Henry David Thoreau
Injustice
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
Fate
Man
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature
Bees
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau
Men
Fish
Fishing
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Henry David Thoreau
Slang
Today
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau
Attention
End
Inventions
Pretty