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We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
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 fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
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I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
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I love a life whose plot is simple.
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Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
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We never conceive the greatness of our fates.
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Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?
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Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes.
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Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.
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To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.
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A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
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Be not merely good. Be good for something.
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...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
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