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Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.
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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If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?
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It is a relief to read some true book, wherein all are equally dead,--equally alive. I think the best parts of Shakespeare would only be enhanced by the most thrilling and affecting events. I have found it so. And so much the more, as they are not intended for consolation.
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You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
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It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
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To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.
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The wisest man preaches no doctrines he has no scheme he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
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I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.
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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
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We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.
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We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
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To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
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Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in the least teach the divine view of nature, but the popular view, or rather the popular method of studying nature, and make haste to conduct the persevering pupil only into that dilemma where the professors always dwell.
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The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.
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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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The fishermen say that the thundering of the pond scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
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As for health, consider yourself well.
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Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
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I have seen more men than usual, lately and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.
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