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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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How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
Henry David Thoreau
That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
Henry David Thoreau
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land there is no other life but this.
Henry David Thoreau
We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
Henry David Thoreau
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.
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Justice is sweet and musical but injustice is harsh and discordant.
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A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
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We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
Henry David Thoreau
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.
Henry David Thoreau
There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.
Henry David Thoreau
We are ashamed of our fear for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
Henry David Thoreau
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
Henry David Thoreau
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
Henry David Thoreau
