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Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
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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Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
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Some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.
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I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.
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Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.
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Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
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A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
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Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
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There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
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A man sits as many risks as he runs.
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I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
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Those who work much do not work hard.
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Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.
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WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
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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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One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
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We must have infinite faith in each other.
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