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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
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 walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
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The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.
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There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.
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A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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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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The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.
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It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village to make any progress between his door and his gate.
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Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
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What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
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A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.
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What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
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We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.
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Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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