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Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
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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Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.
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The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
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The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it.
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Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have. ... Shall we always study to obtain more, and not sometimes be content with less?
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I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
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Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
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I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
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The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
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It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
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Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.
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Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
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At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.
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Any man knows when he is justified, and all the wits in the world cannot enlighten him on that point. The murderer always knows that he is justly punished but when a government takes the life of a man without the consent of his conscience, it is an audacious government, and is taking a step towards its own dissolution.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
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