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To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
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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As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there some, prodigies and portents some rarely look up at all their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.
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The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
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The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
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Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
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We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?
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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
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Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
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A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
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It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.
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