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In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
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 not read the newspapers.
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Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.
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It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
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We can never have enough of Nature.
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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
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Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
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