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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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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
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The improved means to the unimproved end.
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In the mythus a superhuman intelligence uses the unconscious thoughts and dreams of men as its hieroglyphics to address men unborn.
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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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If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?
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A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.
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A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.
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We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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