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LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. -Henry David Thoreau-.

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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.