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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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The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.
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Music never stops it is only the listening that is intermittent.
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If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear his brave back would go a-begging.
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If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.
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Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.
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When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
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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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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
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The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.
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What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
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To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
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As if there were safety in stupidity alone
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Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.
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The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
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How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?
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For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
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