I trust you realize what an exaggerator I am, —that I lay myself out to exaggerate whenever I have an opportunity, —pile Pelion upon Ossa, to reach h… - Henry David Thoreau
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I trust you realize what an exaggerator I am, —that I lay myself out to exaggerate whenever I have an opportunity, —pile Pelion upon Ossa, to reach heaven so. Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness-stand.
Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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David Henry Thoreau
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Henry Thoreau
I would say to the readers of the Scriptures, if they wish for a.. good book, read the Bhagavad-Gita .... translated by Charles Wilkins. It deserves to be read with reverence even by yankees .... \" Besides the Bhagvat-Geeta, our Shakespeare seems sometimes youthfully green ... Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light it is destined to derive thence.\"
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
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