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Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tags: generation, true, men, stars, great

Other Quotes by "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.
— Henry David Thoreau Walden
Tags: nature, living, life, death
It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tags: truth, trust
What is once well done is done forever.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tags: once, well, forever, done
The universe is wider than our views of it.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tags: views, wider, our, than, universe
Men have become the tools of their tools.
— Henry David Thoreau
Tags: technology, become, tools, men
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