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Let us not underrate the value of a fact it will one day flower into a truth.

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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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
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I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.
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The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.
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Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
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I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
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As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.
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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
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One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
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Spring-an experience in immortality.
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In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.
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Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.
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Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
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A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?
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There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness. When sometimes I am reminded that the mechanics and shopkeepers stay in their shops not only all the forenoon, but all the afternoon too, sitting with crossed legs, so many of them - as if the legs were made to sit upon, and not to stand or walk upon.
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