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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.
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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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.
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It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
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Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
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The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
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