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You never gain something but that you lose something.
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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Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
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Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
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I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
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Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
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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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I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.
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Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
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I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.
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Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.
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The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter
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There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.
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The world rests on principles.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
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I want the flower and fruit of a man that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.
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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
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Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in the least teach the divine view of nature, but the popular view, or rather the popular method of studying nature, and make haste to conduct the persevering pupil only into that dilemma where the professors always dwell.
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If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
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One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
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