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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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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Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.
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When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.
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We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
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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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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
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The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.
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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
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Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.
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As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
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A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.
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