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To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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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How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
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Law never made men a whit more just.
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Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
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As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
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