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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
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Some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.
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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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It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere for that will leaven the whole lump.
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The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?
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Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies-neighbors are kind enough for that-but to do the like office to our spirits.
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
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In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.
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I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
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I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.
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If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.
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I suppose that the great questions of Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute, which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.
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Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
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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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Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
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The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
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As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.
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You don't know your testament when you see it.
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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
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