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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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All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.
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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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Heal yourselves, doctors by God I live.
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I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.
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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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Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
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For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
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Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
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