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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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A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
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All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.
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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
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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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Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
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He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
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Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.
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I have a great deal of company in my house especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
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Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
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A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
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We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.
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The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.
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It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
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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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Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.
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Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.
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