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Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
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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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
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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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Things don't change. We change.
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Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.
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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.
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There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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Tough times don't last but tough people do. No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch. Men are born to succeed, not fail.
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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.
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It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.
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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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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
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If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.
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In 1848, Thoreau went to jail for refusing, as a protest against the Mexican war, to pay his poll tax. When RW Emerson came to bail him out, Emerson said, 'Henry, what are you doing in there?' Thoreau quietly replied, 'Ralph, what are you doing out there?'
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You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
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My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone and to strike at the root of the matter at once,--for the root is faith,--I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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