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What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
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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Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
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The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free.
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A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
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With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
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We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.
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What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.
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He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
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What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.
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In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
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For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.
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The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
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All men are children, and of one family.
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No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.
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The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.
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Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
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Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
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I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.
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