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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.
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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Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. 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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Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
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Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]
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The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
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As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
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The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
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The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.
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Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.
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And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.
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Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
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All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.
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Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
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The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
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The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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