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The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
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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While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
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Morning brings back the heroic ages.
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If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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The voice of nature is always encouraging.
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