American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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To be awake is to be alive.
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
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