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The greater number of men are merely corporals.
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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There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.
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I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.
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I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
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Let us not underrate the value of a fact it will one day flower into a truth.
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The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
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I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
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For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
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It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.
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Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
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Spring-an experience in immortality.
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A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
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The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
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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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