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As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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 cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
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The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
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We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
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I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
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Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
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Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.
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At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
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