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When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.
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 redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.
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The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
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The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.
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Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
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Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
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A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
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There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
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I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
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When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.
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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
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That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
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The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
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How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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