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The Great Snow! How cheerful it is to hear of!
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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It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.
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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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It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfully reflected too faithfully indeed for art to imitate, for only Nature may exaggerate herself.
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In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
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A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love. Who can predict his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep.
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The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.
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It is impossible to give a soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.
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Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
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With wisdom we shall learn liberality.
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Live the life you've dreamed.
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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
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Many men walk by day few walk by night. It is a different season.
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
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Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.
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Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Henry David Thoreau
