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Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.
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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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
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One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
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When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.
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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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As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
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I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.
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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Every man will be a poet if he can otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
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One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
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Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
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Bread may not always nourish us but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.
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All great enterprises are self-supporting.
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I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
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Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress.
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Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
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Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
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We are ashamed of our fear for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
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There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
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The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
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