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How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
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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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
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I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.
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You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?
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A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
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Whatever beauty we behold, the more it is distant, serene, and cold, the purer and more durable it is. It is better to warm ourselves with ice than with fire.
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For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself
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It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.
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A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
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I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.
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We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
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What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
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Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
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Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
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Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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