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Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.
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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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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The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.
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How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
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Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.
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The eye is the jewel of the body.
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Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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