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Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
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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I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
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The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
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I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
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I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
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The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.
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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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I stand in awe of my body.
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It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority it is not even a minority then but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
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The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
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