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Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
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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Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
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The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
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Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass anyman's faith in the loftiness of his destiny. Things are to be learned which it will be worth the while to learn.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.
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Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
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I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.
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Simplicity is the law of Nature for man as well as for flowers. When the tapestry (corolla) of the nuptial bed (calyx) is excessive, luxuriant, it is unproductive. The fertile flowers are single, not double.
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Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.
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