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The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
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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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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It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.
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I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
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My greatest skill has been to want but little.
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I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.
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God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone he sees a great deal of company he is legion.
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What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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