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Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.
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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Politics is but a narrow field.
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Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
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To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
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What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
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I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?
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Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
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Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.
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All great enterprises are self-supporting.
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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
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In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
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Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
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It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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