"It is very rare that you meet..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.
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“We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.”
“Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.”
“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
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“We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”
“I will embrace today's difficult tasks, take off my coat, and make dust in the world.”
“The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?”
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“Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.”
“In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.”
“In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth.”