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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
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 poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.
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If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
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I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week. I have tried it recently, and for so long it seems to me that I have not dwelt in my native region. The sun, the clouds, the snow, the trees say not so much to me. You cannot serve two masters.
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Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
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The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
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Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. The pale white man! I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
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The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.
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Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
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How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.
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One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
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The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.
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Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.
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Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
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I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
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Justice is sweet and musical but injustice is harsh and discordant.
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The greater number of men are merely corporals.
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I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.
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