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Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
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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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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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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I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
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I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.
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Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
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Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely related for a brief season that I saw how unexhausted, how almost wholly unimproved, was man's capacity for a divine life. When I remembered what a narrow and finite life I should anon awake to!
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The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
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Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment
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Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
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A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
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There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.
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Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
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