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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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Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
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This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
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Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
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No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
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Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
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Let nothing come between you and the light.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of expediency. There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.
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He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
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There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
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To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.
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Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them - as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon.
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