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A man can suffocate on courtesy.
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 wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.
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Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to!
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.
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Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.
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It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some Symmes' Hole by which to get at the inside at last.
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Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.
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The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
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You never gain something but that you lose something.
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Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
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What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
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Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.
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A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.
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God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone he sees a great deal of company he is legion.
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Hate can pardon more than love.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.
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Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
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