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An American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
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Any fool can make a rule.
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To be awake is to be alive.
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Things do not change; we change.
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The eye is the jewel of the body.
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Men are born to succeed not fail.
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'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
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When a dog runs at you whistle for him.
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Water is the only drink for a wise man.
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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
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I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
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We must have infinite faith in each other.
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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It is not what you look at but what you see.
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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In the long run you only hit what you aim at.
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It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.
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The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
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This life is not for complaint but for satisfaction.
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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City life - millions of people being lonesome together.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
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It's not what you look at that matters it's what you see.
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Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
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Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something.
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Gnaw your own bone; gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
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Thank God men cannot fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
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He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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I went out to the country so i could examine the simple things in life.
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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Read the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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What a man thinks of himself that is what determines or rather indicates his fate.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.
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The frontiers are not east or west north or south but wherever a man fronts a fact.
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Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.
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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it bury it unearth it and gnaw it still.
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I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
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You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly the true place for a just man is also a prison.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
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To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.
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For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.
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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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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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Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
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If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
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Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
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As for style of writing if one has anything to say it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.
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When I hear music I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest.
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Nature even when she is scant and thin outwardly satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
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I think that there is nothing not even crime more opposed to poetry to philosophy ay to life itself than this incessant business.
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In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.
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Simplicity simplicity simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand. ... Simplify simplify.
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain.
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For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully though I never received one cent for it.
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We like that a sentence should read as if its author had he held a plough instead of a pen could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
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Every creature is better alive than dead men and moose and pine trees and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.
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There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
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I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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The youth gets together this material to build a bridge to the moon or perchance a palace or temple on earth and at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.
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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. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life.
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When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength the marrow of Nature.
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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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Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is in fact a subtle detraction.
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.