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• The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), "Walden", 1854...
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• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde
• 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...
• Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Walden (1854)...
• Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn.
  The sun is but a morning star. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde...
• There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
  -- Henry David Thoreau, Walde...
• 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....
• In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. -- Henry David Thoreau