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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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A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.
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While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
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The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.
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As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.
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Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.
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I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.
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Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
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Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
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The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.
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The most alive is the wildest.
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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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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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Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
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To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
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Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!
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I suppose that the great questions of Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute, which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.
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If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.
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If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.
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