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Count your age with friends but not with years.
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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A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
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A temple, you know, was anciently an open place without a roof, whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.
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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.
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I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.
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No doubt another may also think for me but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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Let go of the past and go for the future.
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Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
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I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
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WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
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That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.
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Man makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.
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The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.
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What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.
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Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.
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