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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
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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I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.
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The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.
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See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them they are their true clothes.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
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How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
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Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.
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When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
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