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The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
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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All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.
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The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
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Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.
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How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden all world-ridden.
Henry David Thoreau
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
Henry David Thoreau
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
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Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
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The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.
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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
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What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
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The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
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As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
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There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.
Henry David Thoreau
If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
Henry David Thoreau
