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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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
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Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
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The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.
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Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
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The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
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What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
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All the past is here, present to be tried let it approve itself if it can.
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I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
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Even trees do not die without a groan.
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All good things are wild and free.
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All fables, indeed, have their morals but the innocent enjoy the story.
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
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I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
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It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.
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Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau
We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
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