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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
– Henry David Thoreau

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  2. There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. – Henry David Thoreau
  3. 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
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  5. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! – Henry David Thoreau
  6. One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. – Henry David Thoreau
  7. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. – Henry David Thoreau
  8. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. – Henry David Thoreau
  9. The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him. – Henry David Thoreau
  10. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. – Henry David Thoreau
  11. I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief – Euripides
  12. He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. – Henry David Thoreau
  13. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. – Henry David Thoreau
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  15. Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. – Henry David Thoreau
  16. Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth. – Henry David Thoreau
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  18. In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this. – Henry David Thoreau
  19. Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. – Henry David Thoreau
  20. Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. – Henry David Thoreau
  21. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. – Henry David Thoreau
  22. What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more. – Henry David Thoreau
  23. …is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely? – Henry David Thoreau
  24. Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity. – Henry David Thoreau
  25. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. – Henry David Thoreau
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  27. We have the St. Vitus’ dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still – Henry David Thoreau
  28. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages. – Henry David Thoreau
  29. What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? – Henry David Thoreau
  30. There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony. – Henry David Thoreau
  31. The silence rings-”it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible-”I hear the unspeakable. – Henry David Thoreau
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  33. A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world. – Henry David Thoreau
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  35. Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. – Henry David Thoreau
  36. It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? – Henry David Thoreau
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  38. To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it. – Henry David Thoreau
  39. Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances. – Henry David Thoreau
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