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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

~Henry David Thoreau

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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

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Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

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Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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