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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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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One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
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We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.
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I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
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You never gain something but that you lose something.
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I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
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I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!
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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.
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A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!
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Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
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Who looks in the sun will see no light else but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.
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The most alive is the wildest.
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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
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I have seen more men than usual, lately and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.
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Most think that they are above being supported by the town but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.
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Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.
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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
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Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.
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