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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

~Henry David Thoreau

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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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