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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.: Henry David Thoreau
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.: Henry David Thoreau
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.: Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up your prejudices.: Henry David Thoreau
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.: Henry David Thoreau
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Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.: Henry David Thoreau
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.: Henry David Thoreau
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Men are born to succeed, not fail.: Henry David Thoreau
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Men have become the tools of their tools.: Henry David Thoreau
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.: Henry David Thoreau
Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.: Henry David Thoreau
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.: Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.: Henry David Thoreau
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.: Henry David Thoreau
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.: Henry David Thoreau
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.: Henry David Thoreau
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.: Henry David Thoreau
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Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!: Henry David Thoreau
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.: Henry David Thoreau
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.: Henry David Thoreau
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