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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed
         

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed


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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



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



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

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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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

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