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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
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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No doubt another may also think for me but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
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If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
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The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
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Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
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When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.
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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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In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.
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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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If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
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Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
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You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
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Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
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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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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
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I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
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To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.
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See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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All the past is here, present to be tried let it approve itself if it can.
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