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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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Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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Like speaks to like only labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.
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When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.
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Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.
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If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
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Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force but westward I go free.
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I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.
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There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.
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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.
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