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The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.
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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You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
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Dissent without action is consent.
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.
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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
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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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