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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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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I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.
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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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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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I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.
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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
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I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.
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