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No doubt another may also think for me but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
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 monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
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This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.
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How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
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