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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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Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.
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Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
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To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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