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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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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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Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.
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Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
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The fishermen say that the thundering of the pond scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
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Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
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The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.
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I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
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Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
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What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
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There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
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I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.
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I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
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Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: Home is home, be it never so homely.
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
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It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
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