Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.
("Walden, or Life in the Woods")
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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
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