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Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Be not simply good - be good for something.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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