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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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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
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Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.
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Why look in the dark for light?
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The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.
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When I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.
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Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.
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Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
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I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.
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At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
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Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
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The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
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Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.
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A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
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