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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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As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.
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I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
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Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
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