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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 have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.
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How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
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The imagination never forgets it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.
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That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
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