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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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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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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.: Henry David Thoreau
To regret deeply is to live afresh.: Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.: Henry David Thoreau
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.: Henry David Thoreau
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?: Henry David Thoreau
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.: Henry David Thoreau
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.: Henry David Thoreau
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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.: Henry David Thoreau
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.: Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.: Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.: Henry David Thoreau, 'Economy,' Walden, 1854
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But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.: Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.: Henry David Thoreau, Journal, February 11, 1840
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.: Henry David Thoreau, Journal, January 21, 1838
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.: Henry David Thoreau, Journal, July 25, 1839
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.: Henry David Thoreau, Walden
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.: Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Things do not change; we change.: Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1970)
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy

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