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When I hear music, I flutter, and am the scene of life, as a fleet of merchantmen when the wind rises. - Thoreau

We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise. - Thoreau

A man may walk abroad and no more see the sky than if he walked under a shed. - Thoreau

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Thoreau

The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable. - Thoreau

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. - Alphonse de Lamartine (French Poet and Statesman)

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. - Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. - Thoreau

Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. - Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Thoreau