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What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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 tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
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The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.
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The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
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For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'
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We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
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God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
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Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
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Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.
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We never conceive the greatness of our fates.
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The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.
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All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.
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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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