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Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
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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All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.
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In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
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I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.
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To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.
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If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
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I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
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In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.
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One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
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If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
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Live the life you've dreamed.
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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
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Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.
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