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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
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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Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.
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I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.
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Even trees do not die without a groan.
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Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.
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The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.
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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
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Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.
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I stand in awe of my body.
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He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
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Be not merely good. Be good for something.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.
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To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
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Be wary of technology it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
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