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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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Nature is goodness crystallized.
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If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, But what shall I do? my answer is, If you really wish to do anything, resign your office. When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.
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The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
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The body can feed the body only.
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You don't know your testament when you see it.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.
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Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
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There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.
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Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
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Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
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At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.
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Your religion is where your love is.
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What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
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A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more harmonious compositions.
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. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
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The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
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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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Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
Henry David Thoreau
