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Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
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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Do not suffer your life to be taken by newspapers.
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The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
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Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?
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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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It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.
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You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.
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Who looks in the sun will see no light else but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.
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Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.
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Under the one word house are included the schoolhouse, the almshouse, the jail, the tavern, the dwellinghouse and the meanest shed or cave in which men live contains elements of all these. But nowhere on the earth stands the entire and perfect house.
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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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Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
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A little thought is sexton to all the world.
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What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
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The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.
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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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