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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He attended Harvard University, where he studied the classics and philosophy. After graduating, he taught school for a short time before deciding to devote himself to writing.
In 1845, Thoreau built a small cabin on Walden Pond, where he lived for two years. During this time, he wrote Walden, which was published in 1854. In Walden, Thoreau argues that people should simplify their lives and live in harmony with nature.
Thoreau was also a strong advocate of civil disobedience. In 1846, he refused to pay his poll tax in protest of the Mexican-American War. He was briefly jailed for his refusal, but his act of civil disobedience inspired many others, including Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Thoreau died in 1862 at the age of 44. He is considered one of the most important figures in American literature and thought.
Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1817. He attended Harvard University, where he studied the classics and philosophy. After graduating, he taught school for a short time before deciding to devote himself to writing.
In 1845, Thoreau built a small cabin on Walden Pond, where he lived for two years. During this time, he wrote Walden, which was published in 1854. In Walden, Thoreau argues that people should simplify their lives and live in harmony with nature.
Thoreau was also a strong advocate of civil disobedience. In 1846, he refused to pay his poll tax in protest of the Mexican-American War. He was briefly jailed for his refusal, but his act of civil disobedience inspired many others, including Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
Thoreau died in 1862 at the age of 44. He is considered one of the most important figures in American literature and thought.
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Life
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Inspirational
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
Inspirational
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
Inspirational
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Truth
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Books
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Truth
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Life
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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Inspirational
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Humor
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Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.
Humor
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Life
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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..
Education
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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