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As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
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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Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.
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I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
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Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
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Impulse is, after all, the best linguist its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
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Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
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