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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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Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.
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Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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All great enterprises are self-supporting.
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I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.
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Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
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We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.
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Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.
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To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
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Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.
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All men are children, and of one family.
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To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.
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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 would fain keep sober always and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.
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You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint No Admittance on my gate.
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Where is the unexplored land but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is unexplored land, to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.
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When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.
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No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
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