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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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Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
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Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.
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What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
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I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.
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I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
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Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
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There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
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The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.
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