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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home.
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 true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.
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All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.
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Birds never sing in caves.
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All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.
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Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
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We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.
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Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
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The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
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All great enterprises are self-supporting.
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
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When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
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While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.
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The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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