In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
("Walden, or Life in the Woods")
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Things do not change, we do.Henry David Thoreau
We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
Henry David Thoreau
To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.
Henry David Thoreau
My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,which, however, I did not promise to do.Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partitionshouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, 'Think of itHe stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers.'
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away with detail.... Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
Henry David Thoreau
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