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So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.
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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Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
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How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.
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Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.
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The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.
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Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.
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There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
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If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
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The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.
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The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
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Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.
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