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How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!
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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He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]
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I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.
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I have traveled a good deal in Concord and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
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While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.
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Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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We should impart our courage and not our despair.
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
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The only sin in the world is ignorance.
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Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
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