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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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Every man will be a poet if he can otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
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I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
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The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.
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The student may read Homer or Ãâ schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.
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I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.
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What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?
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Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
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The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.
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At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
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We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
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When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
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Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
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I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
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Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
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Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.
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Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.
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