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A man may stand there [Cape Cod] and put all America behind him.
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The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.
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I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.
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There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers
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The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.
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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
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He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full.
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It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.
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Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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The whole civilized country is to some extent turned into a city.
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Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
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Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
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.. I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days....
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Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
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I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.
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Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.
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Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition
A. R. Ammons
Henry David Thoreau
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Born:
July 12, 1817
Died:
May 6, 1862
(aged 44)
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