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I was determined to know beans.
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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Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
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This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
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When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.
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We should impart our courage and not our despair.
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It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
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A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
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My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents and there is no Signor Blitz about it.
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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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The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
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There may be something petty in a refined taste it easily degenerates into effeminacy. It does not consider the broadest use. It is not content with simple good and bad, and so is fastidious and curious or nice only.
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No doubt another may also think for me but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
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To be awake is to be alive.
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
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Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
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What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.
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After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.
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Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
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As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.
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