American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau
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Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
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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.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
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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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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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Live the life you've dreamed.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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