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To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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 Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.
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It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
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We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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