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The eye is the jewel of the body.
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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There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.
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Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.
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Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
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See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
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The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
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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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I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.
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It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
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Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
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The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
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