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The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.
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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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
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All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.
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All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
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Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.
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What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.
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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
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The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
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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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This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?
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I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
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To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
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The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
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I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true and they do not always mean what they say.
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