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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Henry David Thoreau?
→ The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
→ Generosity wins favor for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
→ Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
→ It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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Pick the quote attributed to Henry David Thoreau.
→ Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
→ Bravery never goes out of fashion.
→ Generosity wins favor for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
→ Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
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Select the quotation attributed to Henry David Thoreau.
→ Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
→ Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
→ No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
→ Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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One of these may be attributed to Henry David Thoreau. Which one?
→ No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.
→ What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
→ The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
→ Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
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Which one of these belongs to Henry David Thoreau?
→ The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
→ Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
→ Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
→ The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Henry David Thoreau?
→ Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
→ The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
→ The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.
→ Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Henry David Thoreau.
→ The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
→ Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.
→ The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
→ An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Henry David Thoreau. Which one?
→ Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
→ We never repent of having eaten too little.
→ The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling.
→ It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak and the other to hear.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Henry David Thoreau?
→ Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
→ There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
→ Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.
→ True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Henry David Thoreau.
→ We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
→ Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
→ Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
→ The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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Looks like Henry David Thoreau is the author of one of these.
→ Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
→ We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
→ Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat.
→ My greatest skill has been to want but little.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Henry David Thoreau.
→ There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
→ The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
→ It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
→ Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Which one should be attributed to Henry David Thoreau?
→ To err is human, to forgive divine.
→ A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.
→ Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
→ It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Henry David Thoreau?
→ Cleverness is not wisdom.
→ Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
→ Better late than never.
→ Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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Select the quote belonging to Henry David Thoreau.
→ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
→ From the end spring new beginnings.
→ One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
→ Ordinarily he is insane, but he has lucid moments when he is merely stupid.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Henry David Thoreau.
→ All things are difficult before they are easy.
→ The universe is wider than our views of it.
→ Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
→ Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Henry David Thoreau.
→ In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
→ The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
→ There is no remedy for love but to love more.
→ To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Henry David Thoreau?
→ You can never plan the future by the past.
→ Only the educated are free.
→ The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
→ Ask me no questions, and I’ll tell you no lies.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Henry David Thoreau. Pick one.
→ Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
→ Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
→ Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
→ The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to Henry David Thoreau.
→ Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
→ Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.
→ Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
→ Promise is most given when the least is said.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Henry David Thoreau?
→ Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
→ When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
→ No legacy is so rich as honesty.
→ Silence is more musical than any song.
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Pick the quote attributed to Henry David Thoreau.
→ Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
→ The sun is but a morning star.
→ I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
→ The pen is the tongue of the soul.
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Select the quotation attributed to Henry David Thoreau.
→ Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
→ What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
→ If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
→ A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
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One of these may be attributed to Henry David Thoreau. Which one?
→ Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
→ On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
→ It’s better to know nothing than to know what isn’t so.
→ Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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Which one of these belongs to Henry David Thoreau?
→ Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
→ There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
→ Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
→ We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Henry David Thoreau?
→ Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
→ Only the educated are free.
→ Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
→ I do not believe in ghosts, but I am awfully afraid of them.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Henry David Thoreau.
→ Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
→ Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
→ The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
→ Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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