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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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The imagination never forgets it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
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Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
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We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
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As if there were safety in stupidity alone
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It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.
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All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
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Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.
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Some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots.
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It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.
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I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
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I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles,I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.
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A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
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If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.
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Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
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