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Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.
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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We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
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Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.
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Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
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The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.
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We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
Henry David Thoreau
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.
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He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
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The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.
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But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.
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Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.
Henry David Thoreau
The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.
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I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.
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I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.
Henry David Thoreau
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
Henry David Thoreau
We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
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Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
Henry David Thoreau
be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
Henry David Thoreau
