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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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We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent.
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It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.
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I have not earned what I have already enjoyed.
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I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.
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What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
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In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.
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Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.
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Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.
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Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
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A temple, you know, was anciently an open place without a roof, whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.
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If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
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Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
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The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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