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My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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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Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.
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A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
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A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
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Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
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Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
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There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
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The only sin in the world is ignorance.
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I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.
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An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.
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The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
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Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
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We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
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It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.
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