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David Henry Thoreau

Author, philosopher, abolitionist, historian, naturalist and anarchist, Henry David Thoreau quotes paint a picture of a man who was passionate about a wide variety of social issues, an activist who was as talented in expressing his beliefs on paper as he was in living them. His most famous manuscript, Walden, was written during his years of solitude living on a pond in Massachusetts. Henry David Thoreau quotes condense society's complicated realities in a succinct and simple thought. One of the most beautifully written is "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away".

Date of Birth: July 12, 1817

Date of Death: May 06, 1862

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"There is no remedy for love but to love more"

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The author's Journal, excerpted from The Thoreau you don't Know... (2009) by Robert Sullivan, page 87

Deeply in love with a woman named Ellen, whom his own brother John also loved, Henry David Thoreau penned this line in his journal in 1839. He later proposed to her in 1841, as did his brother, and both were rejected.

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"The heart is forever inexperienced."

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Emotions

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"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now."

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"Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts -- a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments."

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Army And Navy

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"We are constantly invited to be who we are."

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"The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it."

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Chastity

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"I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls."

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