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To live a better life,--this surely can be done.
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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If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.
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It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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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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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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It has been so written, for the most part, that the times it describes are with remarkable propriety called dark ages. They are dark, as one has observed, because we are so in the dark about them.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
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He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
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