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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 please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
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I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government
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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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He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
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To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?
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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
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I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
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The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
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