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I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.
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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Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
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We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.
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To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.
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