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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.
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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This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient more beautiful than it is useful it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
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While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.
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To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.
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You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?
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Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
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We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
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I am a majority of one.
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If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.
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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too.
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I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.
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I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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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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No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
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Who is old enough to have learned from experience?
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Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.
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