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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
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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Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?
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There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
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Man is but the place where I stand.
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When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.
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