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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.
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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 condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
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Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.
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When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?
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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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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
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find your eternity in each moment
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Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?
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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
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There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
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Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.
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The highest condition of art is artlessness.
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