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If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
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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When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.
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What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
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Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
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If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
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On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.
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For things to change, we must change.
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