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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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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What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
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I would fain keep sober always and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.
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Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
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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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For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.
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Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.
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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Love does not analyze its object.
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The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.
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If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.
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Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
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Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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