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Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
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 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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Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
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The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.
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I have seen more men than usual, lately and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.
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The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
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Read not the Times, read the Eternities.
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I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.
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Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.
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The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
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Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
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As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
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