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There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.
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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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
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I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!
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How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Where is the unexplored land but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is unexplored land, to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.
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To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
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There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
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I have always endeavored to acquire strict business habits they are indispensable to every man. If your trade is with the Celestial Empire, then some small counting house on the coast, in some Salem harbor, will be fixture enough.
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If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.
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The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.
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