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Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.: --Henry David Thoreau

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