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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 think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
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I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
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All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
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It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
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Men talk glibly enough about moonshine, as if they knew its qualities very well, and despised them as owls might talk of sunshine,--none of your sunshine!--but this word commonly means merely something which they do not understand,--which they are abed and asleep to, however much it may be worth their while to be up and awake to it.
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Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
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We bless and curse ourselves.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.
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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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It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
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In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so.
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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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