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Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.
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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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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When I go into a museum and see the mummies wrapped in their linen bandages, I see that the lives of men began to need reform as long ago as when they walked the earth. I come out into the streets, and meet men who declare that the time is near at hand for the redemption of the race. But as men lived in Thebes, so do they live in Dunstable today.
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This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
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Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.
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Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.
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It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.
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When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.
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Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
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There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.
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One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
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The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.
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