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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
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The researcher is more memorable than the researched.
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Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
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I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.
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When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.
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We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
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There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
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We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.
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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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No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
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