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All fables, indeed, have their morals but the innocent enjoy the story.
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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Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.
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We are ashamed of our fear for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
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This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
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Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.
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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
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Where is the unexplored land but in our own untried enterprises? To an adventurous spirit any place--London, New York, Worcester, or his own yard--is unexplored land, to seek which Frémont and Kane travel so far. To a sluggish and defeated spirit even the Great Basin and the Polaris are trivial places.
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It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.
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Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.
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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
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Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.
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This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.
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Our molting season, like that of the fouls, must be a crisis in our lives.
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