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The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
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 found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
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There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.
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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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I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.
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The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.
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Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
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What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
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We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
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The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
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...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.
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All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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