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Dissent without action is consent.
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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So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.
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A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
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The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
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This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them - as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon.
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There is such a thing as caste, even in the West but it is comparatively faint it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.
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The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
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Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.
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That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
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Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
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I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.
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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
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Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.
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Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
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