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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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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He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
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The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
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My greatest skill has been to want but little.
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Hate can pardon more than love.
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Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
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Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.
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What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.
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All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.
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Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.
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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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