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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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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Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.
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When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
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A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
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