American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
Henry David Thoreau
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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That government is best which governs least.
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I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
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It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.
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