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For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
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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I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
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Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
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The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
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Hate can pardon more than love.
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I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.
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Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
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My greatest skill has been to want but little.
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The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
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If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.
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The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.
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The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.
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The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.
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Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
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While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.
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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
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