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  • Henry David Thoreau Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
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  • Henry David Thoreau That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
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    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • David Bearwald The Greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in
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  • Henry David Thoreau The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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  • Henry David Thoreau The universe is wider than our views of it.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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  • Henry David Thoreau Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
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