Henry David Thoreau
"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
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"To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge."
Henry David Thoreau
"Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours."
Henry David Thoreau
"If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life."
Henry David Thoreau
"In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high."
Henry David Thoreau
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Henry David Thoreau
"There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness."
Henry David Thoreau
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."
Henry David Thoreau
"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."
Henry David Thoreau
"However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life."
Henry David Thoreau
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new."
Henry David Thoreau
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk."
Henry David Thoreau
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