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Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
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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It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.
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To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
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Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
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We are superior to the joy we experience.
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It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.
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As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
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Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
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It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.
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The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!
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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
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Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
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Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.
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One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
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Truth never turns to rebuke falsehood her own straightforwardness is the severest correction.
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I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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