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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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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
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So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.
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Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.
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Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.
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We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
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To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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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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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.
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Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
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History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
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The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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Let us not underrate the value of a fact it will one day flower into a truth.
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The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.
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If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.
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