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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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We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.
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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.
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Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.
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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
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The improved means to the unimproved end.
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The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.
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The world rests on principles.
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The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
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No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.
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Dissent without action is consent.
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All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.
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At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.
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