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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately
  o front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived....
• 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....
• Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
• Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify. -- Henry David Thoreau
• 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....
• 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....
• In wildness is the preservation of the world. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walking(1862)
• I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...