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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
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 wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.
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With wisdom we shall learn liberality.
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I love a life whose plot is simple.
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The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
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