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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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 only sin in the world is ignorance.
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.
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My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
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Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.
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Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
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Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Who hears the fishes when they cry?
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
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Every man casts a shadow not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
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Every man will be a poet if he can otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
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The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.
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Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
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Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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I was determined to know beans.
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Being is the great explainer.
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The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
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