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

The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. - Thoreau

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Thoreau

Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves. - Thoreau

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

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. - Thoreau

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. - Thoreau

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent - Thoreau

"The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences. - Thoreau

Every poet's muse is circumscribed in her wanderings, and may be well said to haunt some favorite spring or mountain. - Thoreau