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Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings Quotes: Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
         

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.


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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.



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Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.



Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.





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