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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.
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There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
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No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
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I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.
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After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.
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He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.
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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
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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 of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
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I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.
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In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.
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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
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It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.
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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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We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
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Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?
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