American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau
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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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Truths and roses have thorns about them.
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
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Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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