While civilization has been improving our houses, ... -Henry David Thoreau

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual....
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life....
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret de...
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high....
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see....
The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free....
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?...

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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
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