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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Jan. 3, 1861
As if there were safety in stupidity alone.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.
Men have become the tools of their tools: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Maine Woods," `Chesuncook'
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden," the Conclusion

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