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I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.
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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Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.
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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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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.
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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
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When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.
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For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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In their daily life, all are braver than they know.
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Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.
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I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
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I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.
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Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
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Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
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Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
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Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.
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You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing personally, the stuttering, blunderingclod-hopper that I am. Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag and exaggeration. Not that I do not stand on all that I have written,--but what am I to the truth I feebly utter?
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