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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
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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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There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
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The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
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Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
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When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.
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The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
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Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?
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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
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If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.
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When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.
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If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
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You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
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