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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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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Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
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In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.
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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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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
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Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
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Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.
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I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.
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Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
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Do not read the newspapers.
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It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
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Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
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The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
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Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
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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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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
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