We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun,
("Walden, or Life in the Woods")
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The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have.Henry David Thoreau
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
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Walking is a blessing.
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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
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In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
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Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
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