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The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
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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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.
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Law never made men a whit more just.
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There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
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These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some Symmes' Hole by which to get at the inside at last.
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Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.
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I am a majority of one.
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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
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