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Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
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The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
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The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.
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I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
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No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.
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The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
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I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.
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There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.
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Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing.
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Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.
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What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
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So we defend ourselves and our henroosts, and maintain slavery.
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Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.
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What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
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Nothing is cheap and course, neither dew-drops nor snow-flakes.
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The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.
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I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
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One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
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I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.
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If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.
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You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
A. R. Ammons
Henry David Thoreau
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Born:
July 12, 1817
Died:
May 6, 1862
(aged 44)
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