American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David Thoreau
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.
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I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
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Faith never makes a confession.
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I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
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How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
ManWeakWhoHowAnyDares
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