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Like speaks to like only labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.
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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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
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I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
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That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!
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Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.
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The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.
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I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.
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It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
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When I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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I already, and for weeks afterward, felt my nature the coarser for this part of my woodland experience, and was reminded that ourlife should be lived as tenderly and daintily as one would pluck a flower.
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