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What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.
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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A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more harmonious compositions.
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I have a great deal of company in my house especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
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I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.
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A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
Henry David Thoreau
A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
Henry David Thoreau
However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.
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All the past is here, present to be tried let it approve itself if it can.
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
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There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.
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What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle in a high moral sense they were not men at all.
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All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.
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You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
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I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
Henry David Thoreau
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
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I have traveled a good deal in Concord and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
Henry David Thoreau
All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.
Henry David Thoreau
