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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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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To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.
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It is tranquil people who accomplish much.
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I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
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That government is best which governs not at all and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
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Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.
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The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.
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