“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.”
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“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
“It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
― Walden, or Life in the Woods
― Walden, or Life in the Woods
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