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Henry David Thoreau

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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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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Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

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