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Music is the crystallization of sound.
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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Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
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Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
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If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, But what shall I do? my answer is, If you really wish to do anything, resign your office. When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned his office, then the revolution is accomplished.
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Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents and there is no Signor Blitz about it.
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If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
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He who cannot exaggerate is not qualified to utter truth.
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The highest condition of art is artlessness.
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There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.
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Like speaks to like only labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.
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A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
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The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
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We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.
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Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.
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Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
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As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.
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As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
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It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
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