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The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
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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The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
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Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.
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I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.
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We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.
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There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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We must love our friend so much that she shall be associated with our purest and holiest thoughts alone.
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Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
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In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.
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The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old return to them. Things do not change we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
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In wildness is the preservation of the world.
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime?
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I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
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Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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