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I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
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 discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
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It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?
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Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.
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The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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