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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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 have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
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My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
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It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.
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Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.
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We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.
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Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.
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We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
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Law never made men a whit more just.
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That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
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The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
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As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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That government is best which governs not at all and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
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