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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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I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom and soI am content to live.
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Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
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Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.
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All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.
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There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of expediency. There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.
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Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
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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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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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Love does not analyze its object.
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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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Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.
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Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.
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To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.
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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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If the work is high and far, You must not only aim aright, But draw the bow with all your might.
Henry David Thoreau
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
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Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
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As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
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