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Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.
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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My vicinity affords many good walks and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
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Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
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The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
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Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.
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Let go of the past and go for the future.
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I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
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Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
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What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
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I have no time to be in a hurry.
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The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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