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  1. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.
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  2. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
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  3. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.
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  4. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?
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  5. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure"
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  6. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.
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  7. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness.
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  8. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived "from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander.
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  9. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past."
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  10. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.
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  11. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    Give me for my friends and neighbors wild men, not tame ones. The wildness of the savage is but a faint symbol of the awful ferity with which good men and lovers meet.
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  12. Henry David Thoreau _ Walking

    The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.
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