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The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?
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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Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.
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Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
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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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While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.
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Let nothing come between you and the light.
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