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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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A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.
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Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.
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Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves. . . .
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
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Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
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They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]
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No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
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I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.
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In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.
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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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The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.
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When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.
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That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
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