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Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
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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Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.
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We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
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The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
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We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene their sunny lives onthe sand, amid the beach-grass and bayberries, their companion a cow, their wealth a jag of driftwood or a few beach plums, and their music the surf and the peep of the beech-bird.
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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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All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.
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There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.
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In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
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The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
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The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.
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