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One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.
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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There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.
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We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.
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All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
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Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.
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A man can suffocate on courtesy.
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What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
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When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
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I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.
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The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
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Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.
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As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there some, prodigies and portents some rarely look up at all their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.
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The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is that power thatestablishes justice in the land, never that which establishes injustice.
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The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
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We cannot well do without our sins they are the highway of our virtue.
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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A fortified town is like a man cased in the heavy armor of antiquity, with a horse-load of broadswords and small arms slung to him, endeavoring to go about his business.
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