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The world laughs in flowers. - Thoreau

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a life. - Rabindranath Tagore

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

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then. - Thoreau

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. - 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

I have no time to be in a hurry. - Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house, one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. - Thoreau

Let nothing come between you and the light. - Thoreau