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It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.
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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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
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It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?
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This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
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Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.
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Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?
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The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
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Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
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Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
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Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
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Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
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