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How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
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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When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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We can never have enough of Nature.
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What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
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All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.
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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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Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.
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All the past is here, present to be tried let it approve itself if it can.
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Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
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The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.
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For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself
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Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.
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But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.
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We are apt to imagine that this hubbub of Philosophy, Literature, and Religion, which is heard in pulpits, lyceums, and parlors, vibrates through the universe, and is as catholic a sound as the creaking of the earth's axle. But if a man sleeps soundly, he will forget it all between sunset and dawn.
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What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
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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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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
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When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?
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People seldom hit what they do not aim at.
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