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Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.
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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Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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The voice of nature is always encouraging.
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What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
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As a man thinks of himself, so he is.
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That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
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Where is the unexplored land but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is unexplored land, to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.
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Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
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Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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People die of fright and live of confidence.
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I think it would be worth the while to introduce a school of children to such [an oak grove], that they may get an idea of the primitive oaks before they are all gone, instead of hiring botanists to lecture to them when it is too late.
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Politics is but a narrow field.
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In their daily life, all are braver than they know.
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Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
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