American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
Henry David Thoreau
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Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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