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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
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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The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.
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Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
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That government is best which governs not at all and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
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Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.
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