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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. - Thoreau

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. - Thoreau

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. - Thoreau

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. - Thoreau

We loiter in winter while it is already spring. - Thoreau

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. - Thoreau

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition. - Thoreau

Color, which is the poet’s wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. - Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. - Thoreau

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world. -Thoreau