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We bless and curse ourselves.
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 book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.
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The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
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An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.
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I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at length gave them no peace. They did not know when to swallow their cud, and their lives of course yielded no milk.
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We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
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Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
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In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
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Most think that they are above being supported by the town but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.
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I say, break the law.
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If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
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Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.
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We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
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Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.
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If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
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