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Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.
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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Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
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If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparison--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.
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It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.
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I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,--it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.
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Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
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For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse and imperfect use Indiansand hunters make of nature! No wonder that their race is so soon exterminated.
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One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
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As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
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Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
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He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
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