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I love a life whose plot is simple.
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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Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.
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The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
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No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
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As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
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Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
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