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You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
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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As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
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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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Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.
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Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.
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The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere for that will leaven the whole lump.
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The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
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It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
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We go on dating from Cold Fridays and Great Snows but a little colder Friday, or greater snow would put a period to man's existence on the globe.
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Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
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