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The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
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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I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
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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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A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
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If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.
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Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.
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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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