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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

~Henry David Thoreau

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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

~Henry David Thoreau

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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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