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What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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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That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
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Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
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The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old return to them. Things do not change we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
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If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.
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Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.
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If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.
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Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
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As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
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What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
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Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
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