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We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
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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Biography, too, is liable to the same objection it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?
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Write while the heat is in you.
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
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All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.
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I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
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Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.
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Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.
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Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.
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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
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It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
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To be awake is to be alive.
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WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
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It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
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There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.
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