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Music never stops it is only the listening that is intermittent.
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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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
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If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
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Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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