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Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
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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The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.
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On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.
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If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?
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There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.
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When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
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I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
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The greater number of men are merely corporals.
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We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.
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I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment
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When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.
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Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
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Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
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We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.
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Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.
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For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
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