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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

People

Deeds

Old

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

Lies

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Henry David Thoreau

Being

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Henry David Thoreau

Money

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Clothes

Distrust

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

Success

Goal

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Henry David Thoreau

Men

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

Suspicion

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Henry David Thoreau

Roses

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

Work

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