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Henry David Thoreau

"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings." — Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau

"I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul." — Henry David Thoreau
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." — Henry David Thoreau
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"As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution." — Henry David Thoreau
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"How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - The whole" — Henry David Thoreau
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"We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not." — Henry David Thoreau
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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." — Henry David Thoreau
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"A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams." — Henry David Thoreau
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"Of what significance are the things you can forget." — Henry David Thoreau
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"We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend." — Henry David Thoreau
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"The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory." — Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau

"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few went to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen." — Henry David Thoreau
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