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Henry David Thoreau
United States
12 Jul 1817 // 6 May 1862
Writer / Author / Poet
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On Sin:
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference
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On Experience:
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced
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On Travel:
We need only to travel enough to give our intellects an airing
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On Life:
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character
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On Good:
All good things are wild, and free
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On Friendship:
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance
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On Live (To):
I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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On Rule:
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it
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On Body:
The eye is the jewel of the body
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On Book:
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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