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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
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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A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
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Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
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Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
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Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
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One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.
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I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
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Most think that they are above being supported by the town but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.
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As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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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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