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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.
         

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.


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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.



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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.



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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.



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