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Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
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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You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
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I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.
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I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
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Who is old enough to have learned from experience?
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Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
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Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.
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But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
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What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
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Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.
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Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.
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Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.
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The body can feed the body only.
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.
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I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
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