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Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854
In wildness is the preservation of the world.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1854)
Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Things do not change; we change.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1970)
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Chapter 1: Economy

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