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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
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 have travelled a good deal in Concord.
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.
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It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village to make any progress between his door and his gate.
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If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
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When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
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The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
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I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking, for posterity for knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
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Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
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Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
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We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
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There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
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