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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
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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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.
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People seldom hit what they do not aim at.
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When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
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A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons their kind only. We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
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To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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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 chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
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