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My greatest skill has been to want but little.
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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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
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From exertion come wisdom and purity from sloth ignorance and sensuality.
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Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
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Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.
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Be not merely good. Be good for something.
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