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Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
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 most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small they are the imagined only that content us.
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Your religion is where your love is.
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Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.
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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
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I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.
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We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.
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I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
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Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.
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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
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To the man who cherishes a secret in his breast, there is a still greater secret unexplored. Our most indifferent acts may be a matter for secrecy, but whatever we do with the utmost truthfulness and integrity, by virtue of its pureness, must be transparent as light.
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
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The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
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Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
Henry David Thoreau
In their daily life, all are braver than they know.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau
The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To live like a philosopher is to live, not foolishly, like other men, but wisely and according to universal laws.
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Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?
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