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- Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
- Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Vol. 2, p.318 Houghton Mifflin
- How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Simplify Simplify
- Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), simplify Simplify
- Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe!
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Simplify Simplify
- Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Simplify simplify
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
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