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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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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to!
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Be wary of technology it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
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I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
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There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
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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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Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.
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