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To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
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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Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him?
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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
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Let the beautiful laws prevail. Let us not weary ourselves by resisting them.
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What means the fact--which is so common, so universal--that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?
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It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.
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There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
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Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
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What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
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The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
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