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Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
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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I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.
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I love a life whose plot is simple.
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We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.
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I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
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We slander the hyena man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.
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