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What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
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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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
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Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
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If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.
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