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Endeavor to live the life you have imagined.
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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To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority it is not even a minority then but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.
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One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
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To live a better life,--this surely can be done.
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I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
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Let nothing come between you and the light.
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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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What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
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To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.
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I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
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The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.
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Much verse fails of being poetry because it was not written exactly at the right crisis, though it may have been inconceivably near to it. It is only by a miracle that poetry is written at all. It is not recoverable thought, but a hue caught from a vaster receding thought.
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In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.
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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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At present the globe goes with a shattered constitution in its orbit.... No doubt the simple powers of nature, properly directed by man, would make it healthy and a paradise as the laws of man's own constitution but wait to be obeyed, to restore him to health and happiness.
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Every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us.
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