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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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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
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Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
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One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.
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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.
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If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
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All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
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To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.
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We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
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If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.
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What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.
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Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.
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Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.
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If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?
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That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
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The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
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