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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.
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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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.
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Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!
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The wisest man preaches no doctrines he has no scheme he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
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But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
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Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
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If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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All that are printed and bound are not books they do not necessarily belong to letters, but are oftener to be ranked with the other luxuries and appendages of civilized life. Base wares are palmed off under a thousand disguises.
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Those who work much do not work hard.
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Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest.
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Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.
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This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient more beautiful than it is useful it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
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Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
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Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
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New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
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