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There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
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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We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
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Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double.
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There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.
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Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
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The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
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It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.
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It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?
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We are older by faith than by experience.
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The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.
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Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.
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What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
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Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
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