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The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
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 do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.
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The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit it is a Spirit's breath. A just man's purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds.
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A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.
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People seldom hit what they do not aim at.
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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.
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Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
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Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
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Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
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I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.
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To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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The question is not what you look at – but how you look & whether you see.
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We bless and curse ourselves.
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Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?--to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.
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