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Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.
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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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I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account...
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I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.
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He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
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What exercise is to the body, employment is to the mind and morals.
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We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.
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Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.
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All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.
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To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.
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I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.
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The pickerel... the swiftest, wariest, and most ravenous of fishes.
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It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.
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Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
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How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
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No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
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My Friend is that one whom I can associate with my choicest thought.
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Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
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In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
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He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.
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Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.
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We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.
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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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