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So I dam up my stream, and my waters gather to a head. I’m freighted with thought. - Thoreau

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. - Thoreau

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy. - Thoreau

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. - Thoreau

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys. - Thoreau

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence. - Thoreau

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Thoreau