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The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.
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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Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.
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I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.
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I have a great deal of company in my house especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
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The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
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Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.
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The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful.
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We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.
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The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
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Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
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As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.
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I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
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I say, break the law.
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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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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
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The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
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Count your age with friends but not with years.
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We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
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