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The world rests on principles.
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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The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
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Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
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I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.
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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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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
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The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
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We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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There is no history of how bad became better.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.
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For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.
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Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
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How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
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So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.
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If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
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Do not read the newspapers.
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