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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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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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I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
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There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.
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God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
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Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.
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Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
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The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good.
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The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.
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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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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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You don't know your testament when you see it.
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Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these are our cliffs bare?
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Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?
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Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
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It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
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Dissent without action is consent.
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The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.
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Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.
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