The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
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I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever; At the bottom of my dream.Henry David Thoreau
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it gets out of its way.
Henry David Thoreau
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
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