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No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.
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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Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.
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Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
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Who looks in the sun will see no light else but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.
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