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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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There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?
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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
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Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
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My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.
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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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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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The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
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When I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
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Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.
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Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.
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But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
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The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
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