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“The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”

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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

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Government

Henry David 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.

Life

Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Loneliness