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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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When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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