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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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The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world.
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Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.
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I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.
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There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
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All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
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A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.
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The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.
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If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
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Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
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Every sentence is the result of a long probation.
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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
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Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
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A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.
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You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
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