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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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Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
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The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.
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Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
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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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Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
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All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
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The world rests on principles.
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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
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You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
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History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
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We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.
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You don't know your testament when you see it.
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Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.
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The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.
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Even trees do not die without a groan.
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
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The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.
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