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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
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Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
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This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
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I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.
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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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The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
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What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
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Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
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One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
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