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There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
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 words which express our faith and piety are not definite yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
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I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
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I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.
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Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
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A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
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Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.
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Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
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At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
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A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
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It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
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Love does not analyze its object.
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What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
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The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?
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We slander the hyena man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.
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As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught that the stars are worlds, and had conferred a great benefit on mankind.
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What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
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