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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features. - Thoreau

When I sit here by the sea and listen to the sound of waves, I feel free from all obligations and people of this world. - Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. - Thoreau

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. - Thoreau

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? - Thoreau

Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green. - Thoreau

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread. - Thoreau

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

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. - Thoreau

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end. - Thoreau