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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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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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In order to die, you must first have lived.
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I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
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Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
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Music never stops it is only the listening that is intermittent.
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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
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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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For the most part, we are not where we are, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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No man's thoughts are new, but the style of their expression is the never-failing novelty which cheers and refreshes men. If we were to answer the question, whether the mass of men, as we know them, talk as the standard authors and reviewers write, or rather as this man writes, we should say that he alone begins to write their language at all.
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Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
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Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
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How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
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The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
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I want the flower and fruit of a man that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.
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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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The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.
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A man cannot wheedle nor overawe his Genius. It requires to be conciliated by nobler conduct than the world demands or can appreciate.
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How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!
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A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.
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