American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau
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I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
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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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It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
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Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
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Simplify, simplify.
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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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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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