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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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Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
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As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
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From exertion come wisdom and purity from sloth ignorance and sensuality.
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I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
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We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?
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Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.
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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
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Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.
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Some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.
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By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.
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When I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.
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People die of fright and live of confidence.
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Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.
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