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Beware of any profession for which you must buy new clothes.
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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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau
Translate a book a dozen times from one language to another, and what becomes of its style? Most books would be worn out and disappear in this ordeal. The pen which wrote it is soon destroyed, but the poem survives.
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We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.
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Heal yourselves, doctors by God I live.
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The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.
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How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
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Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
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Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...
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There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of expediency. There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.
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There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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Be not merely good. Be good for something.
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A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
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The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
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Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.
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I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.
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All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.
Henry David Thoreau
In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.
Henry David Thoreau
To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
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