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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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Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
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I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
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This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
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I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable but my friend is my amiableness personified.
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If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
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Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
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We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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