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All the past is here, present to be tried let it approve itself if it can.
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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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.
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As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.
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You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
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Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
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Do not read the newspapers.
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The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
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When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.
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Justice is sweet and musical but injustice is harsh and discordant.
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Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
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Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
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I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
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In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
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It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some Symmes' Hole by which to get at the inside at last.
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I love a life whose plot is simple.
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We live but a fraction of our lives.
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The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.
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Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.
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What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
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