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All men are children, and of one family.
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 imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes.
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My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
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Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
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If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle in a high moral sense they were not men at all.
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Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
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I have no time to be in a hurry.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.
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You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.
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I have traveled a good deal in Concord and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.
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The greater number of men are merely corporals.
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A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.
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To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.
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Who looks in the sun will see no light else but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.
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I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.
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