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It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
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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Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.
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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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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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The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
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Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
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Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.
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When I meet a government which says to me, Your money or your life, why should I be in haste to give it my money?
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Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.
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It will always be found that one flourishing institution exists and battens on another mouldering one. The Present itself is parasitic to this extent.
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I have no time to be in a hurry.
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In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
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You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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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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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
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It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
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This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.
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