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To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.
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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One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.
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Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.
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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.
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The virtues of a superior man are like the wind the virtues of a common man are like the grass the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
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We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.
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If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
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If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
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What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.
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I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
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Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
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Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
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A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.
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We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is.
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Wherever a man separates from the multitude, and goes his own way in this mood, there indeed is a fork in the road, though ordinary travelers may see only a gap in the paling. His solitary path across lots will turn out the higher way of the two.
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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.
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