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The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.
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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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
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If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.
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The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
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God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
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I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
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The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
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One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
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Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
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Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
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Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.
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But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
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The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.
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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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A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
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