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• Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify. -- 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....
• The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
  -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), I, Economy...
• Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.
  Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...
• 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...
• Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?
  If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer....
• If Christ should appear on earth he would on all hands be denounced as a mistaken, misguided man, insane and crazed.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...
• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
  We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers....
• Since I've seen this *several* times in this group, the actual context of the God is dead quotation of Nietzsche
  The Madman. -- Have you ever heard of the madman who on a bright morning lighte d a lantern and ran to the market-place callin out unceasingly...