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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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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The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.
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WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
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The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do and yet how much is not done by us!
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Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
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Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
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The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.
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Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.
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I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.
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I have traveled a good deal in Concord and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
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I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
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