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The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
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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We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, But what shall I do? my answer is, If you really wish to do anything, resign your office. When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.
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No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.
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It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
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He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.
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The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
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Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.
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It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
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Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
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We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
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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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Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.
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Every man will be a poet if he can otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
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Here or nowhere is our heaven.
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