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The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
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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Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed it is itself a reform.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
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I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.
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I did not go to Boston, for with regard to that place I sympathize with one of my neighbors, an old man, who has not been there since the last war, when he was compelled to go. No, I have a real genius for staying at home.
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The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
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I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
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You don't know your testament when you see it.
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Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
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The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?
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Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.
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The only sin in the world is ignorance.
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