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The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
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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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.
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If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.
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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.
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Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
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You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
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Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
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But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
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