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Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
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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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
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A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
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I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.
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The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm.
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