"It is the man determines what is..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
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“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.”
“The only sin in the world is ignorance.”
“Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.”
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“In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.”
“Keeping your emotions all locked up is something that’s unfair to you. When you clearly know how you feel. You should say it.”
“Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.”
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“My life is not an apology, but a life.”
“With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.”
“Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.”