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A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
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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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
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There is no history of how bad became better.
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A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
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Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
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There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
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WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
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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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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.
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When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.
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That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society! And that is called enterprise! I know of no more startling development of the immorality of trade, and all the common modes of getting a living.
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Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
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We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.
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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 past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.
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