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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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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It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
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In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
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That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
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I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.
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I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
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As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.
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There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
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I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.
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Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
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How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
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The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
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The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
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