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I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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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Simplify, simplify, simplify.
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Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.
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Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.
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Law never made men a whit more just.
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Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
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There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
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Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
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Do not read the newspapers.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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The only sin in the world is ignorance.
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The improved means to the unimproved end.
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People die of fright and live of confidence.
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Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
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The golden mean in ethics, as in physics, is the centre of the system and that about which all revolve, and though to a distant and plodding planet it be an uttermost extreme, yet one day, when that planet's year is completed, it will be found to be central.
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Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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