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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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«Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Inspirational,
Life,
Motivation,
Truth
| Keywords:
awake, In Dreams, truest
«A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Friendship,
Success
| Keywords:
satisfy, This Life
«It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
imagination, rather, sensitive, usually, wounded, wounding, wound up
«To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.»
«Live your life, do your work, then take your hat»
«Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.»
«Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
An iron, audience, Be Cool, burn, cooled, cooling, cools, cool it, heat, heated up, heating, heats, heat up, hole, hole up, inflame, inflamed, inflames, iron, ironed, ironing, irons, postpones, postponing, recording, The Holes, The Records, uses, writer, written record, your cool
«I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
lettered, letters, more than, no more, postage, received, to the letter, worth
«It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Speech,
Truth
| Keywords:
hear, one to, speak, takes
«If... the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.»
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