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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
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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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
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A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!
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Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
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Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.
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Here or nowhere is our heaven.
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Where is the unexplored land but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is unexplored land, to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.
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Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?
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No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.
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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
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Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
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At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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