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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
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I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.
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One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
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Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.
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The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
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While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
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When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
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No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.
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Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
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