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''I have lived some thirty-odd 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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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. journal entry, Feb. 11, 1852. Journals (1906).
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''Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.''
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, April 26, 1857, to B.B. Wiley, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, ...
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The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it wa...
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, January 1, 1859, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thor...
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Whatever we do we must do confidently (if we are timid, let us, then, act timidly), not expecting more light, but having light enough. It we confidently expect more, then let us wait for it. But what ...
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, May 2, 1848, to Harrison Blake, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau,...
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If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive min...
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Life Without Principle" (1863), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 4...
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''Slow are the beginnings of philosophy.''
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Natural History of Massachusetts" (1842), in The Writings of Henry David Thore...
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''While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.''
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Slavery in Massachusetts" (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol....
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You commonly make your camp just at sundown.... You have no time to explore or look around you before it is dark. You may penetrate half a dozen rods farther into that twilight wilderness, after some ...
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "The Allegash and East Branch" (1864) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writing...
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''Surely, then, the gods who are most interested in the human race preside over the Tavern, where especially men congregate.''
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "The Landlord" (1843), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 5, p. 153, ...
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We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for this very originality of style, and that posterity will have reason to thank him for emancipating the language, in ...
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Thomas Carlyle and His Works" (1847), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, ...
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