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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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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It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
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For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
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The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
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When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
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