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Being is the great explainer.
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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These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!
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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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History has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?
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It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
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You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.
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Nature is goodness crystallized.
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Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.
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There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
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Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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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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Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
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