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That government is best which governs least.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

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Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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The perception of beauty is a moral test.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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