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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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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
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This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.
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Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
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Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
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When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.
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There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
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The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
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Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.
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For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself
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Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.
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Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
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God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
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The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
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At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
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