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WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.
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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I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.
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Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.
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Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
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