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Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.
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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Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
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Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.
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I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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