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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 are various, nay, incredible faiths why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
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We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
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Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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All that man has to say or do that can possibly concern mankind is in some shape or other to tell the story of his love-to sing, and, if he is fortunate and keeps alive, he will be forever in love.
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The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
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Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature.
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As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
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I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
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My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.
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The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.
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To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
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Let go of the past and go for the future.
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