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The greater number of men are merely corporals.
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 savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.
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There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of expediency. There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.
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You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body
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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
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Who hears the fishes when they cry?
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Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed it is itself a reform.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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