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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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For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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It is remarkable that almost all speakers and writers feel it to be incumbent on them, sooner or later, to prove or acknowledge the personality of God. Some Earl of Bridgewater, thinking it better late than never, has provided for it in his will. It is a sad mistake.
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To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.
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How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden all world-ridden.
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Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.
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Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
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Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.
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The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.
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The words which express our faith and piety are not definite yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
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Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land there is no other life but this.
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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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Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.
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Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
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In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
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I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
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Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
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