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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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Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
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Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
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We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
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You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
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Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.
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The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.
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The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
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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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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
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We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
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At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.
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Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated by higher motives than they are. Accordingly they pronounce this man insane, for they know that they could never act as he does, as long as they are themselves.
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Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
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