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Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.
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 not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
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If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
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The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
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