While civilization has been improving our houses it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Quotes By Henry David Thoreau
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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know can any work be humble...
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If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is...
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To a philosopher all news as it is called is gossip and they who edit and...
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak and another to hear.
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Truth is always in harmony with herself and is not concerned chiefly to...
Quotes About Men
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It...
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their...
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles but by producing them. They...
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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them...
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge...
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Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.
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Some old men continually praise the time of their youth. In fact you would...