Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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A living dog is better than a dead lion.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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