A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.Henry David Thoreau
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
The fire inside burns hotter than the fire outside.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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