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It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Truths and roses have thorns about them.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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