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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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It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses and the brute degenerates in man's society.
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Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
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Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
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The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.
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In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
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Why look in the dark for light?
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