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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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«Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Heaven
| Keywords:
as well, feet, heads, heaven, under
«If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Advances, confidently, direction, endeavors, hours, imagined, in common, unexpected
«If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
be quiet, compensation, compensations, disappointment, enough, Get Ready, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, readiest, ready, readying, shall
«Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
desperation, for a song, go, go to, grave, graver, gravest, lead, leading man, lead on, lives, men, O grave, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, Quiet Life, song, Song of the, still, The Grave
«We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.»
«Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
harmony, in harmony, live in, melodies, melody, merely, say
«Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.»
«You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
blame, clouded, clouding, clouds, Clouds The, cloud over, must not, talk, talk to, The Clouds
«The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
amount, cost, exchanged, immediately, in the long run, long run, required, The Long, The Long Run
«Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
buy, buy at, buy in, buy into, superfluities, superfluity, superfluous, wealth
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