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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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Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
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Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
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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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It is true, we are such poor navigators that our thoughts, for the most part, stand off and on upon a harborless coast, are conversant only with the bights of the bays of poesy, or steer for the public ports of entry, and go into the dry docks of science, where they merely refit for this world, and no natural currents concur to individualize them.
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Some have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.
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Improve every opportunity to be melancholy.
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What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
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You never gain something but that you lose something.
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Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.
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Duty is one and invariable it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.
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Read not the Times, read the Eternities.
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Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
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Hear! hear! screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.
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God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone he sees a great deal of company he is legion.
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The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
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The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
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Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.
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I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.
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Men reverence one another, not yet God.
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The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
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