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Birds never sing in caves.
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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In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
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There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
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Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
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I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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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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Morning brings back the heroic ages.
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There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!
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Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
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The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.
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I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
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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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The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
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Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.
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It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream.
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So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.
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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
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I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.
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