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Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

~ Thoreau Quotes

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There is no remedy for love but to love more.

~ Thoreau Quotes

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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

~ David Henry Thoreau Quotes

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Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wander at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

~ Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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[on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from Thoreau's Eulogy

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[on Thoreau:] He decided to give up his large ambition of knowledge and action for any narrow craft or profession, aiming at a much more comprehensive calling, the art of living.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes from Thoreau's Eulogy

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