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What is religion? That which is never spoken.
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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One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
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What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle in a high moral sense they were not men at all.
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.
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My greatest skill has been to want but little.
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In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.
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It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.
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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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Politics is but a narrow field.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
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I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.
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We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
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Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
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When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.
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Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
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