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Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.
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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There is such a thing as caste, even in the West but it is comparatively faint it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.
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I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.
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Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
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For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.
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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
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Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
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It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
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If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.
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To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
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You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.
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What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
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When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.
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If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
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The eye is the jewel of the body.
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Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
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