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We live but a fraction of our lives.
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 hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
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I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,--it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.
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The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.
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When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
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Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
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The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
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When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.
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Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
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The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.
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I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.
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The greater number of men are merely corporals.
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How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
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The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
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What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
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