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We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.
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 youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.
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Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.
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