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We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
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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Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves. . . .
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
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For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
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I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
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The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.
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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
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Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
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Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
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We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
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Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
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