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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
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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How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
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The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
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If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
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If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
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Spring-an experience in immortality.
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Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.
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I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.
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