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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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It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.
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The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.
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Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
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If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
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No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
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The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.
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Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
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It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.
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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.
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There is no history of how bad became better.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.
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It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
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It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
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Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
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To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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Your richest veins don't lie nearest the surface.
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