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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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Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
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Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.
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It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.
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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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I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.
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Love your life, poor as it is.
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The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.
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Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
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