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The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
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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When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
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If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.
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The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns their due rank respectively to Action and Contemplation, or rather does full justice to the latter. Western philosophers have not conceived of the significance of Contemplation in their sense.
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The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
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How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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I would fain keep sober always and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.
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Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.
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When I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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