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I went to the
woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only
the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn
what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover
that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not
life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as
to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a
corner… to know it by experience and be able to give an
account of it in my next excursion.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
If I shall
sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most
appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing
left worth living for.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
Most men lead
lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song
still in them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
He is not dead
who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is
dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
-- Johann Ludwig Tieck
1773-1853, German Critic,
Writer
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Only those
live who do good.
-- Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist,
Philosopher
Reality is the
crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
-- Lily Tomlin
1939-, American Comedienne
Life is not a
dress rehearsal.
-- Rose Tremain
Let us so live
that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-- Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist,
Writer
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