The heart is forever inexperienced.

—Henry David Thoreau

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About Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance...

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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

—Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

—Henry David Thoreau

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

—Henry David Thoreau

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I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result, I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

—George Steiner

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Whoever said it got easier with time was wrong, death never got easier. The pain dulls around your heart, numbing the spot the deceased inhabited in your chest—but it was never easier. Loss was still loss—a physical pain, a hurt that reaches deep inside you and smothers your soul, forever indenting their memory.

—Kelsie Leverich in The Valentine’s Arrangement

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Love is when you don't have to be with another person to touch their heart!

—Torquato Tasso

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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

—Douglas William Jerrold

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Only do what your heart tells you.

—Princess Diana

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