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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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I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.
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A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
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I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.
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If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.
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There is such a thing as caste, even in the West but it is comparatively faint it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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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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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.
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Duty is one and invariable it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.
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It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
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Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.
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Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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