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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

~Henry David Thoreau

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The heart is forever inexperienced.

~Henry David Thoreau

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

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We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

~Henry David Thoreau

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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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