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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«I did not know at first what ailed me. At last it occurred to me that what I had lost was a country.»
«How full of the creative genius is the air in which these (snowflakes) are generated. I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat.»
«It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.»
«Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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blackbird, blackbirds, frequented, grieve, melt, serenity, sorrowful
«The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.»
«There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.»
«We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.»
«To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.»
«Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.»
«Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.»
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