Henry David Thoreau
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"Henry David Thoreau" was an American author, poet, philosopher, Abolitionism in the United States/abolitionist, Natural history/naturalist, tax resistance/tax resister, development criticism/development critic, surveying/surveyor, and historian. A leading Transcendentalism/transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

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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. -Henry David Thoreau
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To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success. -Henry David Thoreau
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

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Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features. -Henry David Thoreau
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What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. -Henry David Thoreau
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

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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
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Things do not change; we change.

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Be not simply good - be good for something.

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In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. -Henry David Thoreau
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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

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My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

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I stand in awe of my body. -Henry David Thoreau
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

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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
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I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.

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The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.

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In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high. -Henry David Thoreau
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. -Henry David Thoreau
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