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As a man thinks of himself, so he is.
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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There is no history of how bad became better.
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The genuine remains of Ossian, or those ancient poems which bear his name, though of less fame and extent, are, in many respects,of the same stamp with the Iliad itself. He asserts the dignity of the bard no less than Homer, and in his era, we hear of no other priest than he.
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The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.
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If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
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The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.
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If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.
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For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it (life), whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to 'glorify God and enjoy him forever.'
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I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
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As for health, consider yourself well.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.
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This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
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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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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
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When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.
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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
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My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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