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“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

Henry David Thoreau · Loneliness

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Henry David Thoreau

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

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Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Loneliness

Henry David 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.

Fear

Henry David Thoreau

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

Nature