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Man is but the place where I stand.
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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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
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Let nothing come between you and the light.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
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A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
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At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.
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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
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What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
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What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
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We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
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It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
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When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.
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Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
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The improved means to the unimproved end.
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Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.
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I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.
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Our thoughts are epochs in our lives all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
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All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.
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