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Things don't change. We change.
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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That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.
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Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
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Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
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No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.
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