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This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
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 saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
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It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
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To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
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The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.
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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.
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So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.
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What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.
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Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.
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Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.
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Do not engage to find things as you think they are.
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In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.
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I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
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The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.
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