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Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
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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Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.
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A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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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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In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.
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We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
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For things to change, we must change.
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Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
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What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.
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I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
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I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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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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Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
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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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