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I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
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 have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
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I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
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When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
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Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
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Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses and the brute degenerates in man's society.
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