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It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.
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 live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.
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Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.
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If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
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I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
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One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.
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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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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
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Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
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I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.
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