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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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We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
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All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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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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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
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Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.
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The world rests on principles.
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What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
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It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
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My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?
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I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.
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Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.
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The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.
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As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
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