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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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Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.
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The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
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Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.
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Love is no individual's experience and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.
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I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.
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We must look a long time before we can see
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
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Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
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Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances will avail.... It is a drama in which the parties have no part to act.
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When a man truly commits, the universe will conspire to assure his success.
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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
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It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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With wisdom we shall learn liberality.
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To be awake is to be alive.
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Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.
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There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear.
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