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A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.
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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As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.
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Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.
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That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
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One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
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To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.
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