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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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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This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
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The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.
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As a man thinks of himself, so he is.
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Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
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If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
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To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
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Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.
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