I went to the woods because
I wanted to live deliberately,
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life?
To put to rout all that was not life and not when I come to die
Discover that I had not lived.
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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