It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.Henry David Thoreau
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste....
Henry David Thoreau
I came into this world, not cheifly to make this a good place to live in, but live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something and because he can not do everything, it is not necessary that he should do something wrong.
Henry David Thoreau
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