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Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
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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The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small they are the imagined only that content us.
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When I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
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The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
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There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
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