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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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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
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As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
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I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.
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I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are be humbly what you aspire to be.
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I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
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There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
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Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.
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The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.
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