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To live a better life,--this surely can be done.
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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If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
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I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.
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A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
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I am a majority of one.
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