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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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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
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Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.
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For things to change, we must change.
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Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
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I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.
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