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Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
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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Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
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They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
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Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
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I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.
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The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.
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Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
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I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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Impulse is, after all, the best linguist its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
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