When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.Henry David Thoreau
Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names
Henry David Thoreau
It is not enough to be industrious so are the ants. What are you industrious about.
Henry David Thoreau
We hate the kindness which we understand.
Henry David Thoreau
Let justice be done though the heavens fall.
Henry David Thoreau
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau
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