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• I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.
  ... If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it die...
• Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
• 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 never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -- Henry David Thoreau
• 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....
• Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify. -- Henry David Thoreau
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
  o 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....
• 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...
• If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...