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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
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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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
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The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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