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Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
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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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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Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
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All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.
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I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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Read not the Times, read the Eternities.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
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I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.
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