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It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.
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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The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
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He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.
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Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!
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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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We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
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Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.
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The news we hear, for the most part, is not news to our genius. It is the stalest repetition.
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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
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No man who acts from a sense of duty ever puts the lesser duty above the greater. No man has the desire and the ability to work onhigh things, but he has also the ability to build himself a high staging.
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.
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