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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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We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.
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I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
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As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.
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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
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It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.
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The virtues of a superior man are like the wind the virtues of a common man are like the grass the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
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What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.
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The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
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The tavern will compare favorably with the church.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
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You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
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Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
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Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
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Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.
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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
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There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.
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The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.
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