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I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau
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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
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There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.
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Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.
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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
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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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