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depend upon it, you will love your native hills the better for being separated from them
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Now at least the moon is full, and I walk alone, which is best by night, if not by day always.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·July 12, 1851
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The dear privacy and retirement and solitude which winter makes possible!
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·December 8, 1850
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If trees could speak, hundreds of them would say that I had had these soul-emotions under them.
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Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.
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Go as far as you dare in the heart of a lonely land, you cannot go so far that life and death are not before you.