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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
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The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.
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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
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Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
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In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
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The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?
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In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.
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Why look in the dark for light?
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So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.
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There is no history of how bad became better.
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To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
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We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
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All great enterprises are self-supporting.
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Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.
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I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.
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Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther or nearer in the woods, and if near a lake, the semihuman cry of the loons at their unearthly revels.
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The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
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How to extract its honey from the flower of the world. That is my everyday business. I am as busy as a bee about it. I ramble over fields on that errand and am never so happy as when I feel myself heavy with honey and wax. I am like a bee searching the livelong day for the sweets of nature.
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The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
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