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Henry David Thoreau Quotes: The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.
         

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.


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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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