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A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
Henry David Thoreau
Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau
I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.
River Phoenix
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
Henry David Thoreau
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
Henry David Thoreau
The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.
Henry David Thoreau
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
Henry David Thoreau
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
Henry David Thoreau
How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.
Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau
To believe your own thought: To believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius.
Henry David Thoreau