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I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
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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I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government
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We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
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We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.
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The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.
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All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
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I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
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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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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.
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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
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The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
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Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
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Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
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The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.
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To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
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