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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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My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.
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The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
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Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.
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Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
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A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
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Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?
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Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
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My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
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I have a great deal of company in my house especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
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Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
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