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Henry David Thoreau

"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."

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Donna Grant

"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

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Donna Grant

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

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Donna Grant

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

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Donna Grant

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

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Donna Grant

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

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Donna Grant

"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."

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Donna Grant

"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

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Donna Grant

"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

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Donna Grant

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."

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Donna Grant

"Every crisis is a wisdom crisis. If you have no peace around you then you lack wisdom."

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Henry David Thoreau
"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

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Henry David Thoreau
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

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Henry David Thoreau
"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"

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Henry David Thoreau
"Between whom there is hearty truth there is love."

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Henry David Thoreau
"Every people have gods to suit their circumstances."

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Henry David Thoreau
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

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Henry David Thoreau
"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."

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Henry David Thoreau
"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

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Henry David Thoreau
"As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution."

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Henry David Thoreau
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

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