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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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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
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We do not live by justice, but by grace.
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It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere for that will leaven the whole lump.
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Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.
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The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.
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Comparatively, we can excuse any offense against the heart, but not against the imagination. The imagination knows--nothing escapes its glance from out its eyry--and it controls the breast.
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If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.
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The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small they are the imagined only that content us.
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
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I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.
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I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
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I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.
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The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
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Let go of the past and go for the future.
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What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
Henry David Thoreau
The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
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