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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
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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A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.
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I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.
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Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.
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I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
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The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.
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In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'
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