Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Growth
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
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The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
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No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
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How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
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Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concretic layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society...may unexpectedly come forth...to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!...Such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn...Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.
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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.
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How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
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