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All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
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 can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
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All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.
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In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.
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That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.
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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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The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.
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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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It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?
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There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.
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Who is old enough to have learned from experience?
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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