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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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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
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The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
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The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
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I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
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Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
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The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
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Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
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It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.
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A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
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The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
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You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint No Admittance on my gate.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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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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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.
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I am reminded by my journey how exceedingly new this country still is. You have only to travel for a few days into the interior and back parts even of many of the old States, to come to that very America which the Northmen, and Cabot, and Gosnold, and Smith, and Raleigh visited.
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In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
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Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
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