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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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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I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
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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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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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I stand in awe of my body.
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It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.
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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.
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The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
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If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
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We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
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We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
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