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How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of 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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Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.
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Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
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I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
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The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
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But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.
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The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
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There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.
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We do not live by justice, but by grace.
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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
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