"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.“
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"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"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
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"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
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."
-Henry David Thoreau
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