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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
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The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.
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A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.
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I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
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Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
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As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed it is itself a reform.
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The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.
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In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.
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It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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Love is no individual's experience and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.
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If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
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But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
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