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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
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A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.
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Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.
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