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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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The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
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It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.
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What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
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I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.
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One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
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What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
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It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
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There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.
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Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.
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The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what we do and yet how much is not done by us!
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Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
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A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.
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Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
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