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  1. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    he rated it as a gain in coming to America, that here you could get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these, and where the state does not endeavor to compel you to sustain the slavery and war and other superfluous expenses which directly or indirectly result from the use of such things.
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  2. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.
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  3. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.
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  4. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    I love a broad margin to my life.
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  5. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
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  6. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
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  7. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
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  8. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.
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  9. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.
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  10. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
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  11. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.
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  12. Henry David Thoreau _ Walden & Civil Disobedience

    Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
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