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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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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Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.
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In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.
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The United States have a coffle of four millions of slaves. They are determined to keep them in this condition and Massachusettsis one of the confederated overseers to prevent their escape.
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Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
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Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.
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They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
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What would we not give for some great poem to read now, which would be in harmony with the scenery,--for if men read aright, methinks they would never read anything but poems. No history nor philosophy can supply their place.
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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
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The fishermen say that the thundering of the pond scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
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