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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
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Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
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We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.
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Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
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I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.
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If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
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The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
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Some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots.
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No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
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Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.
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The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.
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There may be something petty in a refined taste it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
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