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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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Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
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Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
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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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There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
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It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.
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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
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Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.
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My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
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The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!
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If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
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Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
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So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.
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Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
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Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.
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We hate the kindness which we understand.
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We must have infinite faith in each other.
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