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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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More quotes by Henry David Thoreau
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.
Henry David Thoreau
Morning brings back the heroic ages.
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I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
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My greatest skill has been to want but little.
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It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.
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If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.
Henry David Thoreau
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
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How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
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Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
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The most alive is the wildest.
Henry David Thoreau
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
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How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?
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So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
Henry David Thoreau
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.
Henry David Thoreau
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.
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Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.
Henry David Thoreau
To be awake is to be alive.
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