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The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.
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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It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some Symmes' Hole by which to get at the inside at last.
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Man is but the place where I stand.
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If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear his brave back would go a-begging.
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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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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
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Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.
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What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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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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Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
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You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint No Admittance on my gate.
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You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
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I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.
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Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns.
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