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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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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A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
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It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
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In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
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Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
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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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Being a teacher is like being in jail once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.
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The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
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The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
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Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!
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Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.
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If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
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The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.
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My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.
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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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