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A fact may blossom into a truth.
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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I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.
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We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.
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It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
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Nearest to all things is that power which fashions their being. Next to us the grandest laws are constantly being executed. Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
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Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
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The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.
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We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
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