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Famous Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Famous quotes made by the American author and naturalist, Henry David Thoreau. He was born on July 12, 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts, USA. He died on May 6, 1862.

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City life: millions of people being lonesome together.

Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty concludes to build a woodshed.

Be not simply good; be good for something.

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behaviour.

What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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