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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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I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.
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A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
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Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.
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One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
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I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.
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How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.
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Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.
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How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
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Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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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.
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In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
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