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Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
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 left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
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Man is but the place where I stand.
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
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One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
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What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
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The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them they are their true clothes.
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That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.
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There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.
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Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
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My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.
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A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
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What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle in a high moral sense they were not men at all.
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