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But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
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 am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
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Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.
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With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
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The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.
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I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.
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How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
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Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
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Morning brings back the heroic ages.
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
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