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• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -- Henry David Thoreau
• I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...
• I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
  Henry David Thoreau...
• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle though
  or even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust....
• It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful
  but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do....
• I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream
  and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours....
• If I repent of any thing, it is very likely to be my good behavior. -- Henry David Thoreau
• Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. -- Henry David Thoreau