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Nature is goodness crystallized.
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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Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.
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There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
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It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.
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Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
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Heal yourselves, doctors by God I live.
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You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.
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Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.
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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
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My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself but for my faith and aspiration I have respect. It is from these that I speak.
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The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
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True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.
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I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.
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My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?
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Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.
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I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
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We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
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Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
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