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

Life in us is like the water in a river. - Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. - Thoreau

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? - Thoreau

Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the sun goes down. - Thoreau

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter. - Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. - Thoreau

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. - Thoreau

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. - Thoreau

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. - Thoreau