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Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.
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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If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear his brave back would go a-begging.
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The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
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Let nothing come between you and the light.
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Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.
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