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Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
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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Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.
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To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
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So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.
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There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.
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To be awake is to be alive.
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We are older by faith than by experience.
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I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
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As for health, consider yourself well.
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There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.
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If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.
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Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.
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When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?
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We bless and curse ourselves.
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Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double.
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