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How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!
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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A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveler, supposing that I had been traveling ever since, and had now come round again.
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
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When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?
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Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
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All fables, indeed, have their morals but the innocent enjoy the story.
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You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
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There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
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And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.
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When I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.
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Each humblest plant, or weed, as we call it, stands there to express some thought or mood of ours and yet how long it stands in vain!... Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised.
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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Live the life you've dreamed.
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