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Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
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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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.
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I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.
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Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
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Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old which was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect.
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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
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What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.
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When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a yoke of oxen stood on its stump as if that were what the pine had grown for, to become the footstool of oxen.
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Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
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For things to change, we must change.
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It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.
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No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
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When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?
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Some creatures are made to see in the dark.
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For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
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