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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
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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I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
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Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
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Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
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Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
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What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
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This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient more beautiful than it is useful it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.
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If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]
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The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
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For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.
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What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
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He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.
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I have a room all to myself it is nature.
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For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
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There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
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Of what significance are the things you can forget.
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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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