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Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
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 would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
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If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
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In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
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