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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.
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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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.
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Read not the Times, read the Eternities.
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The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
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Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.
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I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.
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Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
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The eye is the jewel of the body.
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