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There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.
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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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.
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I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
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I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
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The fishermen say that the thundering of the pond scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
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There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
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I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.
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Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
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We bless and curse ourselves.
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