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Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.
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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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?
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Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
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This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
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We bless and curse ourselves.
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The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
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Impulse is, after all, the best linguist its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
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So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
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Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
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It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
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All men recognize the right of revolution that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
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