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The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
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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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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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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Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
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Hear! hear! screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.
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I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.
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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.
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