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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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Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.
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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
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You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?
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I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
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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 do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
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