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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
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 theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.
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A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
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I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
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This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient more beautiful than it is useful it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.
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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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We are older by faith than by experience.
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Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.
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I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
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All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.
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When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.
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As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
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What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.
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Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.
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Music never stops it is only the listening that is intermittent.
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Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?
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Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
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I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.
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A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
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