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  • Henry David Thoreau Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
    Henry David Thoreau
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  • Henry David Thoreau Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Faith never makes a confession.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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