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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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~ The bluebird carries the sky on his back. ~
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~ Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures. ~
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~ What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ~
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~ Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~
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~ Water is the only drink for a wise man ~
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~ The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not, within the scope of mind science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation. ~
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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 whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. ~
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~ All good things are wild and free. ~
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~ Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in nature – daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it – rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks. The solid earth! ~
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~ I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. ~
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~ Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all. ~
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~ Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties ~
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~ Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~
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~ Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. ~
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~ In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains. ~
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