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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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If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
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We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.
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In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.
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In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment to toe that line.
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I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.
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