I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do.
("Walden, or Life in the Woods")
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We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory, only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten.
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
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I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever; At the bottom of my dream.
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You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
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