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The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter.
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My most sacred and memorable life is commonly on awaking in the morning.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·May 24, 1851
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Nature loves such woods, and places her own seal upon them.
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if it has in store any of what I may call the food of study and philosophy, nothing can be pleasanter than an old age of leisure
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Go as far as you dare in the heart of a lonely land, you cannot go so far that life and death are not before you.
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it seems to me that the Muses aided our old writers to complete their finest and most esteemed works by calling in exile as a fellow-worker
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By this practice he may obtain the solitude of adversity without its melancholy, its instructions without its censures, and its sensibility without its perturbations.
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Very, very early in my boyhood I had acquired the habit of going about alone to amuse myself in my own way.