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"A living dog is better than a dead lion." Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Henry David Thoreau was a writer and one of America's most prominent philosphers ever. These are some of his famous quotes.
| | The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. |
| | The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. |
| | Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. |
| | We do not live for idle amusement. I would not run round a corner to see the world blow up. |
| | Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up. |
| | Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. |
| | In wildness is the preservation of the world. |
| | Simplify, simplify. |
| | Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul. |
| | The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. |
| | This world is but canvas to our imaginations. |
| | Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. |
| | Poetry is the mysticism of mankind. |
| | The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God. |
| | I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. |
| | Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. |
| | I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject. |
| | The savage in man is never quite eradicated. |
| | That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. |
| | The perception of beauty is a moral test. |
| | Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. |
| | It is a great art to saunter. |
| | We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes. |
| | How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. |
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