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I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
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 must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.
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The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
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Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.
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The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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