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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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Hear! hear! screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.
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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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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.
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I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.
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If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.
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The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.
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We cannot well do without our sins they are the highway of our virtue.
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The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
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To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
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Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
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I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.
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Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
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