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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"

"I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers."
Explore more quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated."

"I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment."

"Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost."

"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve."

"See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds."
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