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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.
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 the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
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I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
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The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
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It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!
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Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
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The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.
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By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.
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We are ashamed of our fear for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
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The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.
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Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.
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Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.
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Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
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