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I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.
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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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.
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We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
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The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.
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Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
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Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.
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Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
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The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
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Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
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Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
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The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
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They take great pride in making their dinner cost much I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.
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Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
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I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
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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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It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
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