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They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.
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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One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.
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Where is the unexplored land but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is unexplored land, to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.
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The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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