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The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.
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 ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences.
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You don't know your testament when you see it.
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Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic.
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Love your life, poor as it is.
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Duty is one and invariable it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.
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I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.
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The monster is never just there where we think he is. What is truly monstrous is our cowardice and sloth.
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I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
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In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
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Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails. The buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confusion,--as if the short spring days were an eternity.
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The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.
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You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
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Morning brings back the heroic ages.
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A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
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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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