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Justice is sweet and musical but injustice is harsh and discordant.
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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Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
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Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.
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Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.
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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.
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The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.
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The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
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The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
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Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!
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