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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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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Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
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The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
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No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.
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The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.
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