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That man is richest who's pleasure are cheapest.
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 philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.
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My desire for knowledge is intermittent but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.
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Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month's labor in the farmer's almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.
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The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.
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For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
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We are ashamed of our fear for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
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Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
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We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.
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Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
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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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Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.
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When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.
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We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.
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Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.
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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
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In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
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