Men have become the tools of their tools.
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The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.Henry David Thoreau
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
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I was never unusually squeamish I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary
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Each entered the forest at a point he, himself, had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. 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 he hears, however measured or far away.
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