Henry David Thoreau | dreams
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Henry David Thoreau | design
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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Henry David Thoreau | death
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
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Henry David Thoreau | business
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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Henry David Thoreau | business
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Henry David Thoreau | best
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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Henry David Thoreau | best
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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Henry David Thoreau | best
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
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