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As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
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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The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
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A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.
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The eye is the jewel of the body.
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Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.
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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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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
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The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.
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Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
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Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
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To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.
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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must bestripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living laid for a foundation.
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If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?
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Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
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All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
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