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Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
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I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.
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It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
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The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
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Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
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I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
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Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
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From exertion come wisdom and purity from sloth ignorance and sensuality.
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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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The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
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Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
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