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Some creatures are made to see in the dark.
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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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
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So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their good breeding respects only secondary objects.
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The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.
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A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more harmonious compositions.
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A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?
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There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
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No doubt another may also think for me but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
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For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
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As for health, consider yourself well.
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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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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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The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.
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Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
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It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds.
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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