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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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If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.
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What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.
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The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
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The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
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If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.
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I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries.
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The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.
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That government is best which governs not at all and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
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As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
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If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
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The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
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Count your age with friends but not with years.
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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
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It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village to make any progress between his door and his gate.
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
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We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
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There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.
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My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
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We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
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