American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
Henry David Thoreau
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Things do not change; we change.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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