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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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Quote from “Letters To Various Persons (1865)”

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.

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I stand in awe of my body

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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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Quote from “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (1849)”

My life has been the poem
I would have writ,
But I could not both live
and utter it.

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