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We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
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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We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.
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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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In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
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I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
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The eye is the jewel of the body.
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They take great pride in making their dinner cost much I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.
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There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.
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Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
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In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
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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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Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are the convulsions of a planet, compared with the emotions of the soul? or the rising of a thousand suns, if that is not enlightened by a ray?
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.
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I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
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When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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