"Thus men will lie on their backs,..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
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“A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.”
“All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.”
“Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.”
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“The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.”
“Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.”
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“When all is said and done, more is said than done.”
“I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted.”
“Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals,But because of the inactivities of the good people.”