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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
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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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
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As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
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Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
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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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Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.
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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
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