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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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When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.
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My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
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Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
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I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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The tavern will compare favorably with the church.
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.
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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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There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.
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They take great pride in making their dinner cost much I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
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