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Let your condiments be in the condition of your senses.
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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Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.
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All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.
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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
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Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
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If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.
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It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.
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The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.
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Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
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Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
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That government is best which governs not at all and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
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Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
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As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.
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A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.
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We hate the kindness which we understand.
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I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
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