Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David Thoreau
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. 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
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
Henry David Thoreau
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
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