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Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.
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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Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
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To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
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They who are continually shocked by slavery have some right to be shocked by the violent death of the slaveholder, but no others.Such will be more shocked by his life than by his death.
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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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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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At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
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The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.
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We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.
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We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.
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The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker.
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Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
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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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The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such improvements in husbandry it is a safe theme, like pietybut as for the beauty of one of these model farms, I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.
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The schools begin with what they call the elements, and where do they end?
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.
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O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
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Why look in the dark for light?
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Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
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