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You never gain something but that you lose something.
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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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
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Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed it is itself a reform.
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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
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But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
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God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
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I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
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Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
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Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
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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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The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
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At least let us have healthy books.
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All men recognize the right of revolution that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
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Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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