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Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
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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Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
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The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
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When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.
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How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
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With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
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To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
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The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
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Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.
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It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village to make any progress between his door and his gate.
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That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
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My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.
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