Henry David Thoreau

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A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle
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What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Water is the only drink for a wise man.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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