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Who hears the fishes when they cry?
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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My vicinity affords many good walks and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.
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Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
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See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
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To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
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If one listens to the faintest but constant suggestions of his genius, which are certainly true, he sees not to what extremes, or even insanity, it may lead him and yet that way, as he grows more resolute and faithful, his road lies.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
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The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
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If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.
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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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