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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
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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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
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The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
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My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
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Who is old enough to have learned from experience?
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
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The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
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It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
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In order to die, you must first have lived.
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Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
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No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.
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It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
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