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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

~Henry David Thoreau

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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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