Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.Henry David Thoreau
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus you may feel your pulse.
Henry David Thoreau
The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
Henry David Thoreau
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
Henry David Thoreau
There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
Henry David Thoreau
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