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This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
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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If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
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Let us not underrate the value of a fact it will one day flower into a truth.
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We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
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Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
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Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.
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The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
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Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.
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