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It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
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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When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
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It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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