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It is a great art to saunter !
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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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.
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The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do and yet how much is not done by us!
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
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Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.
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From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.
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The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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I seem to have dodged all my days with one or two persons, and lived upon expectation,--as if the bud would surely blossom and soI am content to live.
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It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
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It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
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For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
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Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.
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Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
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To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.
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If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear his brave back would go a-begging.
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