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Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
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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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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The body can feed the body only.
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I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
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Most think that they are above being supported by the town but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.
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Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
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A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!
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How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
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Since you are my readers, and I have not been much of a traveler, I will not talk about people a thousand miles off, but come as near home as I can. As the time is short, I will leave out all the flattery, and retain all the criticism.
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When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
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I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
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