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But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.
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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I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.
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To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
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Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
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Impulse is, after all, the best linguist its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
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No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.
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The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!
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Some do not walk at all others walk in the highways a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.
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Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
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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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Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.
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All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.
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Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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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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