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Fire is the most tolerable third party
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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Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
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Count your age with friends but not with years.
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I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.
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The wisest man preaches no doctrines he has no scheme he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
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The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
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Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
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