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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
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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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
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From exertion come wisdom and purity from sloth ignorance and sensuality.
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So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
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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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My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
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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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I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
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All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.
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The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!
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Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.
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All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
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Live the life you've dreamed.
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
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When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.
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Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
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