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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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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How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.
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What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
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Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist.
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Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in the least teach the divine view of nature, but the popular view, or rather the popular method of studying nature, and make haste to conduct the persevering pupil only into that dilemma where the professors always dwell.
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One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.
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The philosopher's conception of things will, above all, be truer than other men's, and his philosophy will subordinate all the circumstances of life. To live like a philosopher is to live, not foolishly, like other men, but wisely and according to universal laws.
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One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.
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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
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One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
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In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.
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The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement it is only when seen at a favorable angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.
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The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
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Birds never sing in caves.
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It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
Henry David Thoreau
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
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Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.
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The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
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