"The best thing a man can do..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor
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“I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.”
“Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.”
“No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.”
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“Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.”
“The plague of gold strikes far and near.”
“Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.”