We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
¶ (Attributed)
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
¶ (Attributed)
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
¶ (Attributed)
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
¶ (Attributed)
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
¶ (Attributed)
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
¶ (Attributed)
For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.
¶ (Attributed)
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
¶ (Attributed)
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
¶ (Attributed)
The fate of the country ... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every day.
¶ (Attributed)
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
¶ (Attributed)
We should be men first, and subjects afterward.
¶ On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction, — a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse.
¶ Walden, ch. 18 (1854)
The cost of a thing … is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
¶ Journal (1845, undated)
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
¶ Journal (7 Sep 1851)
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