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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
         

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.


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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.



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There is no remedy for love but to love more.



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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.



If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...



I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.



be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.



What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.



The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



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The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.





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I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'



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Ranger Smiled. 'You want me to be Superman? Spend the night with me.



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I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.



Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.




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