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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
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Your religion is where your love is.
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Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
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The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.
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It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
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To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
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In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.
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We are older by faith than by experience.
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Spring-an experience in immortality.
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. 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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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
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That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
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Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
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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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Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
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Of what significance are the things you can forget.
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As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.
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