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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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Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
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Let us not underrate the value of a fact it will one day flower into a truth.
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In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.
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Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.
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The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
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What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
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How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
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Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
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If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.
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For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.
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Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
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