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A Poem by Pete
What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day,..
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A Poem by Pete
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. - Thoreau
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A Poem by Pete
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Thoreau
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A Poem by Pete
We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow. - Thoreau
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A Poem by Pete
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom. - Thoreau
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A Poem by Pete
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Thoreau
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A Poem by Pete
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. - Thoreau
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A Poem by Pete
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced..
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A Poem by Pete
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. - Thoreau
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A Poem by Pete
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self respect. - Thoreau
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