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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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If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.
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Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.
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I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.
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You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.
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For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
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What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
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Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
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How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
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At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.
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Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?
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Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.
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