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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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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Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.
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Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
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Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]
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Those who work much do not work hard.
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The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
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So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary for what's the hurry?
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Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?
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A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.
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A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
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Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.
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It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
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Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.
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There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.
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I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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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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The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
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I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.
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The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
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