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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
– Henry David Thoreau

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  1. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! – Henry David Thoreau
  2. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. – Henry David Thoreau
  3. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. – Henry David Thoreau
  4. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him. – Henry David Thoreau
  5. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. – Henry David Thoreau
  6. The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. – Henry David Thoreau
  7. One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. – Henry David Thoreau
  8. If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. – Henry David Thoreau
  9. The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard – Henry David Thoreau
  10. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. – Henry David Thoreau
  11. The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks. – Henry David Thoreau
  12. A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will. – Henry David Thoreau
  13. Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances. – Henry David Thoreau
  14. A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
  15. Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn’t worth re-reading. – Susan Sontag
  16. It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading. – Clifford Cohen
  17. Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. – Henry David Thoreau
  18. It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. – Henry David Thoreau
  19. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. – Henry David Thoreau
  20. Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice. – Henry David Thoreau
  21. It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. – Henry David Thoreau
  22. Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth. – Henry David Thoreau
  23. Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. – Henry David Thoreau
  24. In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this. – Henry David Thoreau
  25. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau
  26. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. – Henry David Thoreau
  27. What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more. – Henry David Thoreau
  28. …is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely? – Henry David Thoreau
  29. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. – Henry David Thoreau
  30. It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know. – Henry David Thoreau
  31. We have the St. Vitus’ dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still – Henry David Thoreau
  32. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. – Henry David Thoreau
  33. There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony. – Henry David Thoreau
  34. The silence rings-”it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible-”I hear the unspeakable. – Henry David Thoreau
  35. I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse. – Henry David Thoreau
  36. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world. – Henry David Thoreau
  37. Now-a-days, men wear a fool’s cap, and call it a liberty cap. – Henry David Thoreau
  38. It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau
  39. An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. – Henry David Thoreau
  40. Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. – Henry David Thoreau

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