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All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.
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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Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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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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When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.
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Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
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The eye is the jewel of the body.
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We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
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If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.
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I think of no news to tell you. It is a serene summer day here, all above the snow. The hens steal their nests, and I steal theireggs still, as formerly. This is what I do with the hands. Ah, labor,--it is a divine institution, and conversation with many men and hens.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
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We should impart our courage and not our despair.
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As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
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The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.
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We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.
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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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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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