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Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.
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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There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
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Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
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The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,--the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,--at least apparently,--but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.
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I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
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By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry.
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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We seem to think that the earth must go through the ordeal of sheep-pasturage before it is habitable by man.
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That government is best which governs not at all and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
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Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
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You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
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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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Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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You don't know your testament when you see it.
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The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.
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Let your walks now be a little more adventurous.
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