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Love does not analyze its object.
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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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
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It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.
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It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
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A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.
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