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Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!
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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Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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People seldom hit what they do not aim at.
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When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
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Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.
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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 not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
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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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I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.
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No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
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Things don't change. We change.
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To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.
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To regret deeply is to live afresh.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
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Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.
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It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.
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