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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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As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there some, prodigies and portents some rarely look up at all their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.
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The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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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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Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
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The student may read Homer or Ãâ schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure emulate their heroes, and consecrate morning hours to their pages.
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I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
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The only sin in the world is ignorance.
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When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.
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A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
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The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.
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Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.
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All men are children, and of one family.
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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
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If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.
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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 richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
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I have myself to respect, but to myself I am not amiable but my friend is my amiableness personified.
Henry David Thoreau
As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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