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We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected. - Thoreau

Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness. - Thoreau

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. - Thoreau

There is only one path to heaven. On earth, we call it love. - Thoreau

The world laughs in flowers. - Thoreau

Man's life is like a drop of dew on a leaf. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a life. - Rabindranath Tagore

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. -Thoreau

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then. - Thoreau

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. - Thoreau