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The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
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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Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.
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If we cannot sing of faith and triumph, we will sing our despair. We will be that kind of bird. There are day owls, and there arenight owls, and each is beautiful and even musical while about its business.
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Fame itself is but an epitaph as late, as false, as true.
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Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
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An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. The inefficient offer their inefficiency to the highest bidder, and are forever expecting to be put into office. One would suppose that they were rarely disappointed.
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Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
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It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?
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The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
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I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about as high as my head, either by a crow or a squirrel. It was a mile at least from any corn-field.
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Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
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Life isn't about finding yourself it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.
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