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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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Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
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I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.
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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
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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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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
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Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
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All fables, indeed, have their morals but the innocent enjoy the story.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The only sin in the world is ignorance.
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He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
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We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.
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We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
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Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.
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Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
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The walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
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Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.
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We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.
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