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Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
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 suppose that the great questions of Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute, which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.
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Who looks in the sun will see no light else but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.
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If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
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What is religion? That which is never spoken.
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Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
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...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
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It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.
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