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Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
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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A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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