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• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde
• To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), in "Walde
• 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....
• There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
  -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde...
• What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau in Walden, "Economy
• 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....
• 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....