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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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Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.
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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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The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.
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All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.
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Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.
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We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.
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I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
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Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
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That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!
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The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.
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When I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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The tavern will compare favorably with the church.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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The researcher is more memorable than the researched.
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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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The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
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The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
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The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more distant dwellers on its banksmany a poet's stream, floating the helms and shields of heroes on its bosom.
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