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A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
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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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
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Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
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When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.
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Some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots.
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
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