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It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.
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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I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
Henry David Thoreau
Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
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The voice of nature is always encouraging.
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Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.
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The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
Henry David Thoreau
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
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Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
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I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
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Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.
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Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.
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Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect.
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All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
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I love the broad margin to my life.
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Morning brings back the heroic ages.
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He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.
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I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.
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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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