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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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I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,--it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.
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Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
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Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
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I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
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As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
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The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.
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I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.
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Who is old enough to have learned from experience?
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Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
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It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
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Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
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I have traveled a good deal in Concord and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
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A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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Some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.
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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
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Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.
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