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The imagination never forgets it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.
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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I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
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I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.
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Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
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Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
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Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.
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I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
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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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The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.
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As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.
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There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
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Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
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The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
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