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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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 have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
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I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.
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We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
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The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
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Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
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What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
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We live but a fraction of our lives.
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Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
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I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.
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I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
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In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.
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When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
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As for health, consider yourself well.
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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
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