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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7227/">Quotes by <em>Thoreau, Henry David</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and naturalist. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."

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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

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"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."

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"As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution."

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"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life."

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"If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?"

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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

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

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"Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit."

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