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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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How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
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One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
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Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest.
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See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Every man will be a poet if he can otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
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In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Law never made men a whit more just.
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I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
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I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
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Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
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How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.
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If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
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Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
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Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
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Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.
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There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
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. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
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New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
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