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If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
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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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
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I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.
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All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.
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Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
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I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
Henry David Thoreau
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
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When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?
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Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
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I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear his brave back would go a-begging.
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The improved means to the unimproved end.
Henry David Thoreau
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
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The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.
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Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
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While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.
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It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
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