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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. - Thoreau

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

The man who takes the liberty to live is superior to all the laws, by virtue of his relation to the lawmaker. - Thoreau

Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform. - Thoreau

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkled trophy. - Thoreau

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

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness. - Thoreau

If anything changes, I’ll just take it in stride. For now, I can still walk down the street and quite happily not get noticed. - Sam Claflin

Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns." - Thoreau