It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau
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  2. The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me. - J.m. Barrie

  3. I search for love frantically... and quitting at the last moment by making excuse for myself that I've tried - Acha Salim

  4. Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results. - R.J. Lawrence

  5. The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately. - L.j. Smith

More Quotes By Henry David Thoreau
  1. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed...

  2. I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..

  3. The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  4. It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

  5. 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.

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