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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!
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If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
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Some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots.
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He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.
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Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.
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The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
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We live but a fraction of our lives.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
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Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
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Be wary of technology it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
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It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
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