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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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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
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The Library is a wilderness of books.
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Unless the human race perspire more than I do, there is no occasion to live by the sweat of their brow. If men cannot get on without money (the smallest amount will suffice), the truest method of earning it is by working as a laborer at one dollar per day. You are least dependent so I speak as an expert, having used several kinds of labor.
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The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.
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The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
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So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
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You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
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Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.
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The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.
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Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
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Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
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Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.
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Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world?
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A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. The pale white man! I do not wonder that the African pitied him.
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Many men walk by day few walk by night. It is a different season.
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Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.
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Most think that they are above being supported by the town but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.
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Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.
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