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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
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The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.
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From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.
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