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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
         

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.


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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.



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be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.



What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.



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The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.



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