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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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 thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.
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Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
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It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
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I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.
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Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?
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Any moral philosophy is exceedingly rare. This of Menu addresses our privacy more than most. It is a more private and familiar, and at the same time, a more public and universal word, than is spoken in parlor or pulpit nowadays.
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