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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

~Henry David Thoreau

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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

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The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

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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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Faith never makes a confession.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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