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Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

~Henry David Thoreau

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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

~Henry David Thoreau

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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

~Henry David Thoreau

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The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

~Henry David Thoreau

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It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

~Henry David Thoreau

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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

~Henry David Thoreau

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To be awake is to be alive.

~Henry David Thoreau

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How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

~Henry David Thoreau

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I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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