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All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.
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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Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
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If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear his brave back would go a-begging.
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The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.
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I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
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The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.
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I wish to learn what life has to teach, and not, when I come to die, discover that I have not truly lived.
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