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What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
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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Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.
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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
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Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
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Many men walk by day few walk by night. It is a different season.
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The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.
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All fables, indeed, have their morals but the innocent enjoy the story.
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I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.
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I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.
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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
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Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
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It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
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Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
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Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.
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