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Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
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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I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]
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I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be meadow and forest, not only serving an immediate use, but preparing a mould against a distant future, by the annual decay of the vegetation which it supports.
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Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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A man sits as many risks as he runs.
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All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.
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The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
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The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.
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A man can suffocate on courtesy.
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The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
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