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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

~Henry David Thoreau

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

~Henry David Thoreau

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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

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The universe is wider than our views of it.

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Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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